Adam Sohn
Adam Sohn
applied exploit flaw known patch security
We investigated this report. He was able to exploit a known security flaw that we were able to patch. The patch had not yet applied to the server.
absolute across applied certainty check given hard patches people prefer security teams
Would we prefer that our people put patches in on the same day they come out? Sure. It's hard to give you an absolute certainty that the patch had been applied across the board. Given today's incident, our security teams are going back to check out the systems.
ask couple days extra patch post prefer public rather
If you ask our customers, they prefer we take a couple of extra days before we post a patch rather than have the public know about the problem.
offer resolve sell thousands tried
We tried to resolve this out of court, ... They made an offer to sell us these things for tens of thousands of dollars. We said 'no way.'
care connect help information people tools visualize
These are tools that help people better visualize and connect to the information they care about.
deeply media merge ten venture
Ten years ago it was a venture to really think deeply about how you merge traditional media with new media. It made sense at the time.
single versus wants
Everyone wants to single out MSN versus somebody.
exploits fixed millions problem public rather soon tool
We're disappointed. As soon as they went public with the tool that exploits the issue, they put millions of IIS servers in jeopardy. We would rather to have had this fixed before they disclosed this problem to the world.
case comment comply contact customers data government heard microsoft privacy protected request specific
Microsoft typically does not comment on specific government inquiries. That said, as you may have heard from the DOJ, they did contact us in this case. We take the privacy of our customers very seriously. We did comply with their request for data in this case in a way that ensured we also protected the privacy of our customers.
business compliance full laws twice
Like when you go into business in any country, you do it in full compliance with the laws and regulations of that country. It's not something we think twice about.
attract people
What we want to do is attract people into the (MSN) network,
additional complete document model object ready simply technology toward work
We simply thought that the technology was not ready and was in need of additional work toward better and more complete integration with the document object model and with HTML.
focus growing online
The partnership allows us to focus on growing the online venture.
david degree felt state
To some degree I think David felt comfortable enough with the state of things at MSN that now's the time.