[untitled #516]
By Todd Stadler · Wednesday, November 5, 2003 4:07pm
Microsoft is pledging $500,000 for help in tracking down the makers of the SoBig and Blaster viruses. This is part of their $5,000,000 narc-on-your-virus-friend program.
I'm disappointed they didn't use those millions of dollars to pay some programmers who understand software security better.
Although, I guess they couldn't probably fix all their security holes with that much money, so maybe it's an attempt to be more economical in solving this problem.
Still, I'm reminded of other ridiculous attempts to solve problems by not solving them, such as the narc-on-your-neighbor/potential-terrorist TIPS program. Which, you know, pretty much ended terrorism as we know it.