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http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/22816.html
MS 'Security Framework' is another .NET vulnerability
By Richard Forno
Posted: 14/11/2001 at 03:31 GMT
In late October 2001, Microsoft's Security Manager Scott Culp published a missive calling for 'responsible disclosure' of security vulnerability information on the Internet, claiming it was because of the public availability of such information that major Internet security problems or cyber-terrorist events could occur. His commentary was well-received by large commercial companies and security vendors, and panned by nearly everyone else.
During his discourse, Culp joined today's sensational security bandwagon by coining the term "information anarchy" to indicate what would happen without 'responsible security discussions' in controlled environments away from where cyber-criminals may learn some new trick to cause electronic mischief or mayhem. First we have the White House (the most powerful government in the world) seeking to prevent an "Electronic Pearl Harbor" by any number of government initiatives. Now we have Microsoft (the most powerful monopoly in the electronic world) seeking to prevent "Information Anarchy" through any number of corporate initiatives. Perhaps "Information Anarchy" is a term intended to imply that information really doesn't want to be free, or can't be free and safe (thus attacking the legitimacy of the open source software movement) and must be therefore restricted through invasive software, policies, or law? Or is Culp simply trying to get a term into the New Hacker's Dictionary?
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