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| Subject: | Re: Your Opinion |
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| Date: | Fri, 16 Mar 2007 15:29:01 -0500 |
Mark Litchfield wrote:
I have heard the comment "It's a huge conflict of interest" for one company to provide both an operating platform and a security platform" made by John Thompson (CEO Symantec) many times from many different people.
The only conflict that occurs to me is the commercial pressure of an OS vendor to retain their reputation of security, by providing less disclosure than a security coordination group or security utility company might present. When RoI reigns supreme, the pressure to downplay security issues, correct them silently, etc is much greater than the desire to be candid with the end-user administrator community.
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