Lobbying for insecurity

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Anything which encourages the use or development of proprietary systems that are difficult to certify for even the most basic levels of security creates additional risk to computer systems; reducing government support for security development for any widely- available and widely-used operating system creates additional risk; and suppressing the development of a competitor's secure software on the basis of market concerns creates a security risk for your customers as well as your competitor's customers.

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http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/26866.html

! this is a realy good read !

This is a great article and it shows what we have to lose and to fear if we let companies like Microsoft dictate the future of security standards.

The NSA went a long way in developing a secure version of linux, and it shows what the open source community is capable of. We as a public cannot allow companies like Microsoft to make their bottom line more important than our security. I hope that the days are numbered for proprietary OS technology.