It can be done, but I think Microsoft will never release
"mission critical" code because it's not in their
best interest.
Quote from the article:
It is very clear that either Microsoft does not have sufficient
resources in place to properly review the security of their services
and software (it only took me about 30 minutes to come up with the
basics of the example exploit, why didn't they notice the same
issues?) or that they are aware of the shortcomings but decided that
attempting to gain market share was more important than their user's
security.
The reason Microsoft sucks is they have billions of
dollars and still botch it. That quote tells why:
their priority is making more billions, not security,
not the interest of the user (aside from what's minimally
required to keep them interested or FUDded).
Why would they waste time designing (they're already
late getting in the internet game) and debugging when
they can be making money? Then they can sell upgrades,
too, and claim it's some "new technology" or "experience".
I think something like Passport is far too important to
put in the hands of a company with a track record
like Microsoft, and I don't apologize for them one bit.
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