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When it comes to Microsoft fuckwittage though - so much to write, so little time. I don't expect this site to be a sensible place to catch up on the latest fuck-ups from Redmond, as I have work to do, but MS plainly deserve a place on this set of sites...

An amusing one given Microsoft's new 'initiative' - trustworthycomputing.com sends you to Googled list of this fine corp's past security flaws. But that's okay because they are spending a whole month bugfixing. I'm quite sure that's long enough, cf. Bruce Schneier, via The Register:

Microsoft is going to have to say things like, 'We're going to put the entire .NET initiative on hold, probably for years, while we work the security problems out.'

Oops! Yet another hotmail hole. This one requires you to know the person's username (the bit before the @ sign in their email address) and guess the numeric message-id (which seems to be derived from a unix timestamp). As a colleague put it - 'so their security scheme is predicated on having unreadable URLs'. Joy. BBC News have a fairly accessible explanation.

No articles here yet, but if you run a web server, why not do something sensible with all those Code Red attempts?

For a more useful and sober look at getting along without Microsoft's products check out Living Without Microsoft.