Sorry buddies !

Sorry for the "MIA" for 10 days, long trip..

Im here with my thoughts on Micro$oft and its Longhorn again...

Last week, as Micro$oft released its statement, about integrating RSS into its Longhorn OS and IE, it raised many security professional's eyebrows , on its strength and hardness against combatting against hackers. With the current available "oh-so-many" ways of exploiting 'Windoze' OS, what would the scene be, with RSS integrated right into its Operating System ?

Krishna starts wondering... What a wonderful world it would be....

"When Microsoft laid out its plans last week for building RSS -- Real
Simple Syndication -- into Longhorn, it didn't say anything about how it might
secure the automated feeds.Nor has really anyone, said Gartner research director
John Pescatore, the research firm's resident security analyst.'What inevitably
happens with any new protocol, especially the ones with the word "simple" in
them, is that developers try to come up with a way to easily communicate data,'
said Pescatore. 'Only at the end do they say, 'let's sprinkle some security on
it.' RSS is like that.

RSS security
-- or insecurity -- is hardly new. A possible way to deliver malicious code and
spam via the protocol was highlighted two years ago by Mark Pilgrim, a writer of
several technical and programming books, such as "Diving Into Python."

With all this, the chances of hackers and spammers turning to Windows mainstream , to look for weaknesses , seems to bring up more light.

Krishna turns back to his dark world of security, "Life's good."

RSS: Safe At Any Feed?