Before you go away for Xmas: You've patched that critical Perforce Server hole, right? Four vulnerabilities in Perforce Helix Core Server, including one critical remote code execution bug, should be patched "immediately," according to Microsoft, which spotted the flaws and disclosed them to the software vendor. Perforce Server is a source code management platform used across gaming, government, military, and …
A world where Microsoft used the same efforts to examine their own source code and fix their shit Instead of spending hours decompiling and checking the code of others. All the while shouting look over there, not at the bucket of shit we create for criminals to exploit. A utopia indeed.
Nope just bored of the same tired old shit from holier than thou commentators.
All major software has security issues, and MS has one of the largest range of software going. Add all the Linux and combine equivalent software packages out there and I doubt you'll see much difference.
Maybe Google and MS should stop looking at other people's code (despite probably them being the best placed to spot issues, due to the massive amounts of data they see (for better or worse) and let people like you live in blissful ignorance.
I've been using computers since the late 70s and see the same crap posted year in year out.
Grow up and accept their help.
There are copy-editor tricks for this, such as reading backward (start at the end of the text, or of an easy-to-find unit such as a paragraph, and read words from the end to the start). Or use a window of, for example, a line at a time. Anything that makes it more difficult for your brain to just fill in what you expect to see helps with copy-editing for things like orthography and mechanics.
Of course, these tricks interfere with editing for higher-level concerns such as tone, voice, style, and coherence. Whether they're useful at the moment depends on what sort of proofing and revising you're doing.
every time Microsoft releases a "security" update that breaks printers or wifi, they have to STFU about other people's stuff for a month
And how would this help anyone?
The fact that valid security research is coming from Microsoft makes it no less valid, or useful.
Honestly, sometimes people here seem impressively hard of thinking.
They didn't decompile it, they just installed it and noticed that if you didn't follow all of the steps then it still worked but was insecure.
Microsoft software also used to be like this, and then they started making things locked down out of the box. It's not a bad thing that they're helping others learn from Microsoft's mistakes of the past.
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