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RE: [Full-Disclosure] Re: Microsoft Security, baby steps ?

From: Paul Schmehl <pauls@utdallas.edu>
Date: Fri Mar 19 2004 - 11:48:08 EST

--On Friday, March 19, 2004 10:15:06 AM +0000 Random Letters
<randomisedletters@hotmail.com> wrote:

> <opinion>
>
> The only way to 100% secure a Windows client machine is to take it away
> from the user and lock it in a cupboard.
>
[snipped a bunch in the middle.
>
> If Windows was 100% secure, why bother at all with patches and virus
> updates?

Write this on the chalkboard 100 times.

"Nothing is 100% secure! Nothing is 100% secure! Nothing is 100% secure!"

Paul Schmehl (pauls@utdallas.edu)
Adjunct Information Security Officer
The University of Texas at Dallas
AVIEN Founding Member
http://www.utdallas.edu

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