My Life in the Hands of Microsoft
Posted on Friday, July 18th, 2003 at 21:00.
Yesterday, Microsoft admitted that its first OS built under its "Trustworthy" computing initiative has an enormous security flaw, as does most every other Windows OS according to this Associated Press story. The federal Department of Homeland Security announced a day before that it will be purchasing $90 million worth of Microsoft software over five years for its 140,000 top security desktops and servers. I do not find comfort in my national security with irony such as this.
While I am thinking about the issue, anyone who uses a computer should be aware that the Trusted Computing Platform Alliance and Palladium are evil. This issue alone is worth buying Apple hardware to run Mac OS X.
