Richard Forno, a principal consultant for KRvW Associates and a former senior security analyst for the House of Representatives, believes that Microsoft is a threat to national security. The White House, Congress, and Department of Defense all run Windows and send and receive e-mail on MS Exchange Server—exploitable Microsoft products that offer a “target-rich environment for malicious code.”

—Microsoft vs. Computer Security Why the software giant still can’t get it right. By Adam L. Penenberg Slate Posted Monday, Jan. 9, 2006, at 1:10 PM ET

Golly, I wish somebody had thought of that sooner, like maybe Dan Geer about two years ago.

The U.S. government doesn’t seem interested in doing anything about this, which would be pretty easy: it could require software diversity on its own networks. For that, you have to go someplace like Brazil. James Seng, who noted this article, can afford to laugh about it; he lives in Singapore.

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