"Crumrine, Gary L" wrote:
>
> Those companies that are positioned to take advantage of the
> opportunities, and have the staff and capital to do it "Right" will
> reap the benefits in the long run.
Translation:
The company that has the most exceptional marketing staff and
biggest marketing budget will convince all small and medium sized
companies (95% market share) that their service is the most
user-friendly and easily understood one, and therefore is the best
one to use, regardless of all that technical gibberage that noone
understands anyhow, will reap the benefits in the long run.
After all, since they're the biggest ones, they have to be the
best, right?
...
Hmmmm... I see before me little animated paperclips that install
as ActiveX(tm) components over the internet, come bundled with
Internet Explorer(tm) 6, and connect to web pages via ActiveChannel(tm)
to get the latest advisories, all typed up as user-friendly,
easily understood snippets.
How's this for an advisory of an exploitable buffer overrun?
"We have discovered another evil attack using specially crafted
intentionally malformed requests that are exceptionally difficult, next
to impossible in fact, to construct, that could, in the extreme cause,
cause arbitrary code to be executed with the rights of a user. This
could not occur incidentally. There are lots of technical details that
you don't want to be bothered with, so won't mention those here.
Just download this patch (umh, sorry, "hotfix(tm)") and install
everywhere and you'll be fine".
:)
/Mike
Disclaimer: This was a purely fictional posting. Any similarity to
any existing company or service is purely incidental. ;)
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