I couldn't believe it when I read it, but according to ZD Net there have been 48 security vulnerabilities in Microsoft products so far this year! The latest is a flaw in an ActiveX control that thwarts SSL and digital certificates. Astonishing.

Please don't get me wrong, I am not anti-Microsoft. I have 4 out of 6 machines on my network here at home running one version or other of Windows, the other two running Red Hat 7.3. But whatever happened to the trustworthy computing directive? SSL is at the very heart of internet commerce as we know it today, and if that isn't secure then what does that mean for e-commerce and .Net?

It just puzzles me.