, 2008-11-14
For the last few years, Microsoft has wrestled with their stance on piracy. Pirated operating systems are just like legitimate operating systems in terms of their exposure to vulnerabilities: Users must install patches or they will be compromised.
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Microsoft's Stance on Piracy Affects Us All
2008-11-17
NickMax (1 replies)
NickMax (1 replies)
Re: Microsoft's Stance on Piracy Affects Us All
2008-11-20
Name another company which is responsible for supporting stolen... (1 replies)
Name another company which is responsible for supporting stolen... (1 replies)
I think you have missed the point of the article that says "affects us all". The author is not concerned about the user of the pirated copy but about what that user's computer will then do to everybody else's when infecteded. If there are enough compromised computers an epidemic becomes a zero-day exploit where YOUR computer becomes infected before there is time to apply the security patch.
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