Re: Microsoft, please protect your stacks (was Re: [ih] ...stack?)

To: "David P. Reed" <dpreed at reed.com>
Subject: Re: Microsoft, please protect your stacks (was Re: [ih] ...stack?)
From: "Meritt James" <meritt_james at bah.com>
Date: Mon, 06 Aug 2001 09:32:33 -0400
Cc: "James P. Salsman" <bovik at BEST.COM>, ietf at ietf.org
Organization: BAH
References: <5.1.0.14.2.20010731161344.04407e30@mail.reed.com> <5.1.0.14.2.20010803085259.06e54960@mail.reed.com>

And you expect them to save "us" from "ourselves"?  Interesting.

"David P. Reed" wrote:
> 
> Not sure why I got this(I'm not on ietf.org), but probably I was
> bcc'ed.  It calls for a response, though, if only to oppose a burgeoning
> meme that somehow Microsoft could save us all from hackers if it only did
> one or two simple things.  Those things being techniques that bar perfectly
> sensible coding practices and techniques in order to "save us from hackers".

-- 
James W. Meritt, CISSP, CISA
Booz, Allen & Hamilton
phone: (410) 684-6566

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