Slashdot interviews Microsoft's VP of Security

Slashdot's interviews are always most interesting when they're with unexpected subjects, like Mike Nash, Microsoft's VP of Security, and the guy at whom about half of Slashdot's endless parade of anti-Microsoft jokes are indirectly aimed. It's a decent interview, and Nash's answers are fairly canded and relatively free of PR-speak. He retreads the same ground a couple of times, though, and the essence of his message is: Microsoft is really serious about security now, and Windows Vista is going to be super. The most interesting question is #9, in which an anonymous Microsoft employee goes on record to say that the company's security processes really consist of disinterested developers going through the motions and catching perhaps only 10% of security issues. Unfortunately, Nash chooses to pretty much dodge this question, which could be as telling as any actual answer he might've given. However, his answers concerning spyware and adminstrator privileges in Vista are fairly interesting.

Tags: 2000, bugs, microsoft, security, spyware, vista, windows, xp