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. Continue reading →