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Comment If you don't like this (Score 2) 65

wait a week or two and the details will change completely.

Trump is nothing if not mercurial. His fans will tell you he's playing 11 dimensional chess... I have my doubts, but let's say that's true. The problem is that when it comes to the economy it's not chess. It's more like basketball, and the President is the point guard calling plays, except the play being called keeps changing before the players can execute the last call. It's a tough time to be running a business, you can't plan out more than a couple of weeks.

Comment Re:wait... weren't government entities supposed to (Score 1) 58

1- wait... weren't government entities supposed to get first crack at patches? 2- And how in the fuck do you go unpatching a security vulnerability for so long?

Assumably the people who chose Microsoft don't a firm grasp on how to manage a secure system, and their leaky skillset obviously include keeping patches up to date (and apparently managing a firewall is hard for them, too).

Comment Re:"Flaws"? Seriously? (Score 1) 58

Yeah, we get it. You don't like Microsoft. But how could this be called gross negligence if nobody knew about the bugs before they were found?

The negligence will be the result of Microsoft not using proper security procedures (they don't), or not spending enough time looking for bugs when they know they are there (they do know it).

If you believe ANY software can be made 100% secure

This is your fault. You are using a fuzzy definition of "secure." Once "secure" is well enough defined, then you can make the software 100% secure, it's just a matter of money. For example, you can be 100% sure that your code has no SQL injection bugs. You can be 100% sure that your code has no memory errors of certain classes (by using Rust). Using Rust is definitely not my preferred solution, but it IS a solution if you want to go that way.

You find vendors with a proven track record, do thorough risk assessments

Yeah, that's not Microsoft. Updates should be going through a secure SSH tunnel, at a minimum, not through Sharepoint.

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