Microsoft Caught Funding Biased Security Reviews... Again

Discussion in 'News and Article Comments' started by Anti-Trend, Mar 26, 2005.

  1. Anti-Trend

    Anti-Trend Nonconformist Geek

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    When an 'independant' report at a security convention proclaimed that their studies had found Windows to be more secure than a major Linux distribution, many people were understandably surprised. According to this acticle, Microsoft was in fact behind the entire debacle. No suprise there, I guess.
     
  2. ninja fetus

    ninja fetus I'm a thugged out gangsta

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    Good work MS! Bill Gates must be a very proud man
     
  3. Addis

    Addis The King

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    Anyone surprised at this? At all? No? Me too.
     
  4. Anti-Trend

    Anti-Trend Nonconformist Geek

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    For reference, here's a few articles on the same topic, which were posted previously on this very forum.
     
  5. matttibb

    matttibb Geek Trainee

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    If you can afford it why not? :D Apart from being morally wrong and probably illegal who cares! :chk:
     
  6. Nic

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    Lol
     
  7. matttibb

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    I was being sarcastic in case anyone didn't notice there :good:
     
  8. Nic

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    Yeah I did :p
     
  9. syngod

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    I'd have to say before coming down hard on them someone should try duplicating their results.

    If it turns out it was a completely biased and false conclusion they reached then fine bash MS and the researchers all you want.

    They said they provided all the info for someone to replicate their tests so I'd like to see it verified as false before basically ruining a researchers reputation.
     
  10. matttibb

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    Very good view there Syngod.
     
  11. ninja fetus

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    though I can see where you're coming from, I have no respect for researchers that can be funded in order to 'achieve' certain 'results' as it is. Doing that they can't really be called researchers though can they?
     
  12. Anti-Trend

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    I have to agree with Fetus on this one. These guys knew exactly what they were doing from even before money changed hands. In doing so they ruined their own reputations. A truly independant review cannot come from nor be funded by a company in question! If Red Hat had funded it, I wouldn't trust it much more. But here's an interesting thing to ponder: ever seen a review which puts the funding company in a bad light?
     

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