If you thought Y2K was bad, wait until cyber-security hits

Sun Jul 21 00:28:20 UTC 2002

On Thu, Jul 18, 2002 at 08:22:00PM -0400, sean at donelan.com said:
[snip more depressing erosion of common sense and liberties under the guise
of 'patriotism']

> The security "Gold Standard" for Microsoft 2000 was written by the
> Critical Infrastructure Protection Board, the Center for Internet
> Security, the National Security Agency, the General Services
> Administration, the National Institute of Standards and Technology, and
> the SANS Institute.

_Microsoft_ managed to get a security 'Gold Standard' for one of its
products? This must be for some non-golden value of gold ...
-- 
-= Scott Francis || darkuncle (at) darkuncle (dot) net =-
  GPG key CB33CCA7 has been revoked; I am now 5537F527
        illum oportet crescere me autem minui
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