Feature Microsoft President Brad Smith struck a conciliatory tone regarding his IT giant's repeated computer security flaws during a congressional hearing on Thursday — while maintaining that the Windows maker is above the rule of law, at least in China.
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He answered nearly three hours of questions from US House representatives about Microsoft's infosec flaws. Now is the time for the White House and Congress to do their job and make sure we don't hear about another Redmond blunder being exploited by a foreign government six months from now.
And the US government has several tools at its disposal, from executive orders to federal spending, to avoid another Microsoft-related security breach.
Smith began his congressional testimony this week by accepting "responsibility for each of the issues" cited in a recent Homeland Security report that blasted Microsoft for a series of "unavoidable errors." Those flaws, according to the investigation, allowed Beijing-backed cyber spies to steal tens of thousands of sensitive emails from Microsoft-hosted Exchange Online inboxes of high-ranking US government officials.
