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Indeed.

Worse, Microsoft believes that obscurity is security.

Look at that article again:

The Stuxnet computer worm spreads through previously unknown holes in Microsoft's Windows operating system

Somehow this reminds me of the 0bama administration, everything happens "unexpectedly"...

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It’s happening.

[Still Thinking]

"The Stuxnet computer worm spreads through previously unknown holes in Microsoft's Windows operating system"

Somehow this reminds me of the 0bama administration, everything happens "unexpectedly"...

And...it's full of previously unknown holes!

[mvpel]

Worse, Microsoft believes that obscurity is security.

They don't believe that. It's just that Windows is such a complex and arcane contraption that it's too complicated for any given person to foresee how all the thousands of pieces will interact with one another.

Consider the registry key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SYSTEM/ControlSet001/Services/abp480n5/Parameters/PnpInterface/5 - set to a value of "1" on my system.

The abp4805n5 service was associated with a severe security vulnerability which "lets remote attackers to execute arbitrary code through a web page that triggers existence of an object in memory that was not suitably downloaded or deleted, aka "Uninitialized Memory Corruption Vulnerability."

And that's just one of hundreds of possible services in Windows XP.