This article isn't saying Oracle is bad, MS is good, blah blah blah, like so many AntiMSers seem to say. It's simply saying that the claim to say anything, ANYTHING, is unbreakable is outlandish and laughable, only re-iterating that point by saying it's already been exploited in the worst way(giving remote users unauthorized root access) short of mailing them the system to their house. Microsoft marketing might say XP is the most stable OS they have made, which isn't saying much, but the fact is they never said "XP is the best, no one can touch it!" Why? Because anyone that even knows what computer security is would laugh their rear ends off.

Microsoft, IBM, Sun, and the multitude of other companies even remotely involved in computer security would be laughed off the face of the planet if they made such a claim as to being unbreakable.

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