Re: [Full-Disclosure] Re: MS Security Response is a bunch of half-witted morons

2004-03-15 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Mon, 15 Mar 2004 08:35:28 PST, Troy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > I've sent comments regarding this to Microsoft via the "comments" link > at the bottom of the security bulletin. I don't know if it will do any > good, though. I did get a generic-sounding "we're looking into this" > email back, s

Re: [Full-Disclosure] Re: MS Security Response is a bunch of half-witted morons

2004-03-15 Thread Troy
On Fri, 12 Mar 2004 08:55:39 -0800, Walter Wart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Nick, your points are well taken. Everyone of them makes sense. And you > will never get disagreement from me (or most people here) for a spot of > Microsoft abuse. But you might want to address your comments to > Microso

RE: [Full-Disclosure] Re: MS Security Response is a bunch of half-witted morons

2004-03-15 Thread Andrew Aris
Nick, As much as I agree with you that this is someting of a blunder by Microsoft's web design people and that it does give out an impression of a bad attitude towards security rather than being a huge risk per-se (not saying that there is no risk involved). In fact I agree with more or less all t

Re: [Full-Disclosure] Re: MS Security Response is a bunch of half-witted morons

2004-03-14 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Fri, 12 Mar 2004 16:09:21 EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > seems a little childish. And if one was to argue that "Aanyone needs to > read these articles not just people that support M$ OS's", well to > that...most people that have a M$ OS as an end user have auto update > turned on and dont ev

RE: [Full-Disclosure] Re: MS Security Response is a bunch of half-witted morons

2004-03-13 Thread Aditya, ALD [Aditya Lalit Deshmukh]
> Your points are well taken and understandable. But if you are supporting > a M$ operating system enough to need to read the SB's, then wouldnt your > IE be up to date to read them? Even if you would just use IE to > read M$'s > site? To sit and scream about web design decisions in this mai

RE: [Full-Disclosure] Re: MS Security Response is a bunch of half-witted morons

2004-03-13 Thread Aditya, ALD [Aditya Lalit Deshmukh]
> I agree with Nick. It is ironic and unfortunate that MS would force > users to turn on a potentially unsafe scripting language to read a > security bulletin. > the default secure lockdown includes stopping and blocking all the scripts from executing so i think this is a paradox

Re: [Full-Disclosure] Re: MS Security Response is a bunch of half-witted morons

2004-03-13 Thread Patrice Neff
Kim Scarborough <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've been playing around with custom stylesheets but I can't seem to > find a way to override that. That's a good idea. It works with the following line: div { display:block !important; } The !important statement is necessary in order to overwrite

Re: [Full-Disclosure] Re: MS Security Response is a bunch of half-witted morons

2004-03-12 Thread Mike Barushok
On Fri, 12 Mar 2004, Troy wrote: > On Fri, 12 Mar 2004 16:09:21 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Your points are well taken and understandable. But if you are supporting > > a M$ operating system enough to need to read the SB's, then wouldnt your > > IE be up to date to read them? Eve

Re: [Full-Disclosure] Re: MS Security Response is a bunch of half-witted morons

2004-03-12 Thread Troy
On Fri, 12 Mar 2004 16:09:21 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Your points are well taken and understandable. But if you are supporting > a M$ operating system enough to need to read the SB's, then wouldnt your > IE be up to date to read them? Even if you would just use IE to read M$'s > site