Comments on: Microsoft launches 'Genuine' antipiracy initiative

Company to combine education, engineering, enforcement efforts to slow counterfeiting and piracy of its software.

[maddogthegreat]

Microsoft can't verify their own software

The March verify program is failing to okay valid XP programs. Out of 50+ machines I had 2 fail until MS sent us a new program.

[Ganymede28211]

You know Microsoft...

If it's not fixed by now, it's a feature. But as a software developmer myself, I know that no matter how many tests I run, the field will always pick up 1-5% of the bug fix incidents.

[wbenton]

Lack of Security at it's UTMOST

Security is all about:

Secrecy: Encryption... keeping things private

Authentication: Confirming the person and/or application is what/whom they say they are.

Integrity: Ensuring that what is supposed to be... is as it's supposed to be... unmodified and in it's original content.

This is WHAT security is about. It's been around for thousands of years... ever since the Pharao's entombed the pyramid designers in the pyramids with the Pharao's themselves to keep the secrecy of the true path hidden.

Past encrption methods have all been discovered as will current encryption methods be discovered in the future.

Past authentication methods included the likes of changeable code words spoken before allowing one to pass over a bridge or enter a castle.

Similarly, wax seals with the King's emblem embedded on them were used as integrity checkers.

We're now standing thousands of years later at 2006... but the game is still the same.

If Microsoft cannot authenticate their own products... then they're doomed to their own lack of authenticatable, integrity protected security!!!

Walt