Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 6th Aug 2006 08:45 UTC, submitted by Khoji
In a recent podcast Steve Gibson of grc.com has drawn attention to a detailed report [.pdf] by engineers at Symantec who demonstrate that Windows Vista contains a completely virgin network stack that has been programmed from the ground up. The Symantec software engineers have monitored the behaviour of the new stack through a series of beta releases and have documented that it contains most of the basic bugs and security holes that have long since been fixed in other stacks - even the Windows 95 stack. Since it has not had a chance to mature and develop in the wild, the likelihood that it contains new, uncharted holes and errors is very high. Some have already been found. Gibson stresses that the ramifications for the security of the new stack are disastrous.
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Most of the academic work originally done on computers and programming languages was done in the United States. Who invented FORTRAN? Lisp? C? Americans. Who derived lambda calculus? A pair of Americans. Why is it any surprise that Americans have a stronger pool of programming talent?
Are you from Texas? ;-)
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