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   Red to Doomsdrzej   
   Re: Pirates Crack Microsoft’s UWP Protec   
   17 Feb 18 20:28:21   
   
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   From: red@usenet.invalid   
      
   On Sat, 17 Feb 2018 13:42:41 -0500, Doomsdrzej  wrote:   
      
   >   
   >Fairly sad, but not totally unexpected. Just about every Microsoft   
   >security measure is a joke for the same reason why they are   
   >theoretically respected as a software company. They hire the best   
   >coming out of a variety of higher education establishments, but those   
   >same employees are only skilled at reading books and getting a job   
   >done in a timely, orderly fashion. They've never been asked or forced   
   >to think out of the box so it shouldn't be a shock that whatever they   
   >come up with for security is also unimaginative and only theoretically   
   >effective. I'd trust those who create software with skills they've   
   >acquired out of a desire to do so than those who create skills with   
   >skills they've acquired from reading a book.   
      
   I'd say this is the main problem right now with the entire computer   
   industry, whether commercial or nonprofit.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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