The Double Speak of Security

Nice little piece of PR stupidity at IT News as Microsoft finally push out an update to disable AutoRun in Windows XP. Being a security issue they can’t just state the truth so instead they trotted out this lovely load of double speak.

AutoRun isn’t an accident - it’s a feature.

Therefore it can’t be a bug.

So the update is rated “Important, non-security update”.

Because we found viruses were exploiting it.

Kudos for finally killing a “feature” they should have thought through a lot harder in the beginning. Rubber Chicken award for the cowardice of how they did it and for not doing it years ago.

Posted by Carlton Duston on 10 Feb 2011 | 0 comments
Tagged with News, Opinion, None

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