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At the rate of attacks, at some point, Outlook will be the most secure and virus resistant client available. I didn't say the open source community is the culprit unless of course you want to include virus code file swapping as a form of open source; I said the same environment breeds it. That is how Klez became as sophisticated as it is. Like Linux, lots of people hack the same code. It is an outlaw community but it lives in the same neighborhood. Because such communities seem to be epidemic, the whole web is taking the hit from the standpoint of considering moving vital computing resources onto the web. It simply isn't safe. So why does Outlook continue to be the target? If MS did release the Outlook source, would the open source community work to secure it or go on bashing MS, and in some cases, use that knowledge to create meaner more robust viruses? Is all the MS bashing symptomatic of a culture that encourages the criminals? Blaming MS for the actions of hacker virus writers is making a criminal out of the victims. Telling them how to fix the security holes helps everyone but the virus writers. len From: Dennis Sosnoski [mailto:dms@s...] I guess you've never heard of the "attractive nuisance" laws. They're what require (e.g.) swimming pool owners to put up fences so that neighborhood children won't be tempted to dive in uninvited. There're also product liability laws that prevent shoddy workmanship in physical goods sold to customers, but so far software companies have managed to avoid getting those applied to software. In any case, MS is *not* the crime victim. The victims are their customers. And to suggest that the open source community is the culprit is so far out in left field that I won't even dignify it with a response.
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