Another Day With My PC

Just when it seems that Apple may have shot itself at the foot for allowing its OS X to be the subject of a hack-the-program sort of competition at the CanSecWest conference in Vancouver, Canada, Microsoft has recently found itself in a similar situation.

Joanna Rutkowska, a security analyst who is famous for exposing Windows’ security flaws, will be conducting a seminar, called “Understanding Stealth Malware,” on how hackers could exploit Vista’s faulty design and take over the system. This training session will start on July 28. The five-day event is slated to be held during the Black Hat Briefings and training show in Las Vegas.

I hope Microsoft would be a sport on this one. The training hasn’t even started yet, but it has already assumed a very defensive mode. Conferences such as the one that will be conducted by Rutkowska would actually benefit the software giant rather than hurt it. We all know that Bill Gates’ engineers are not exactly candid when it comes to the flaws of their most famous product. They can’t and won’t be able to anticipate all the problems that might come in their software’s way. Hence, what Microsoft should do instead is to listen to these people who dissect Vista and learn from their discoveries.

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