Vista Security at the RSA Conference

First published: February 2007

Sir William Gates spoke at the RSA Conference in San Francisco, recommending IPv6 and IPsec combined with smart-card access as a better way to protect systems and users’ identities than passwords. He also announced that his company’s CardSpace system would collaborate with the OpenID initiative.

At the same conference, John Thompson of Symantec criticised Microsoft for a dangerous conflict of interest in selling both an operating system and security software. Thompson likened the conflict to combining your accountant and auditor.