Posts by Martin Taylor 1

Segregation of duties

It seems to me basic that you should not use a security mechanism provided by supplier X to address security vulnerabilities originating from the same supplier. Microsoft do not seem to have understood this.

Microsoft's first anti-virus product, MSAV, was rubbish. I can't speak to the quality of this one, but however technically good it may be at detection, it has now, I believe, been utterly compromised by this extremely bad advice. The only way out, I feel, is for Microsoft to improve the performance to the point where thay can publicly rescind that advice.

Paris, because her performance is never in doubt. Can't speak about vulnerability to infection though...

PKI??

PKC, I think you mean

@Learn the language

You may be interested to know that according to Wikipedia the USA does not have an official language.

GPL status

Your headline raises the question of whether the GPL is or is not a license; but your article text does not address that point at all, which makes the headline a trifle misleading.

See http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20031214210634851 for a treatment of that question (written in pre-GPLv3 days).

Not rocket science...

The simplest workaround is to install the "NoScript" add-on, and only allow scripts on sites known to be trusted.