Bottom line? This is what I told them they would have to do way back in 1997-1998. Gates and I and many other executives read my weblog. So I posted last year about using their embedded system. I knew I won the argument when I was on a bus going past Microsoft and they were flying a flag no one had ever seen before - one for Microsoft embedded systems. On their own website I found case studies by some of their OEMs which were using the embedded product to make alternative system.

I've been viscously attacked by some of them over these design issues. In the computer industry our standard for security is to build various security shells. Nothing from the outside should be able to get to the core. So I've got Microsoft now referring to Longhorn as Microsoft new client system. It's all on my weblog. I have one of the oldest weblogs or blogs on the Internet. I've been doing this since we were only in text. I was taught design from the old master at IBM. I knew some of the people at NeXT and that they were working with the CIA. Apple bought NeXT. Now Apple and IBM are working together. Believe me, the people who have harassed me have really screwed up big time.

When I managed to finally get Microsoft to put up the security page on their web, I would ask some of the older retired engineers how come they could fix these problems so fast. The reason was because they knew about them all the time. Microsoft is literally going under due to attrition. Gates needs to find 7,000 people this year and he can't find them. He especially can't find the people with Ph.D. in security to work for him. Microsoft has been black balled due to my web. I have an underground like you couldn't believe.

Now interview Peter Neumann from SRI. Everyone loves P. LOL I acted as a go between for Gates for years, then in 1999 we got caught. It's all in court document. All of it.

Bruce Schneier wrote in Crypto-Gram
"SP2 is an important security upgrade to Windows XP, and I hope it is widely installed among licensed XP users. I also hope it is quickly pirated, so unlicensed XP users can also install it. In order for me to remain secure on the Internet, I need everyone to become more secure. And the more people who install SP2, the more we all benefit."
http://www.schneier.com/crypto-gram-0406.html#4
"Microsoft is harming its licensed users by denying security to its unlicensed users."

We have a situation here that Microsoft will need to deal with. The pirates have won along with Microsoft. The average PC user is less secure. Microsoft is working hard on it. So are the pirates and maybe smarter too. Windows appears very easy to crack. There may be more tools for cracking Windows, than tools for fixing it. It might not be worth fixing, if that is even possible. I would think that Microsoft Passport has been cracked more than once. I don't know and I really don't care much. It's a big problem.