Stephen Toulouse
Stephen Toulouse
Stephen Toulouse, also known as Stepto, former Director of Xbox LIVE Policy and Enforcement at Microsoft. He frequently represented Microsoft and Xbox Live in various media, including on Larry Hryb's "Major Nelson Radio" Xbox-related podcast, to discuss security and policy issues...
ensure happen hard help lessons situation taken work
We've taken a look at this situation and incorporated some lessons learned. We will work very hard to help ensure something like this doesn't happen in the future,
automatic enable flaws key people risk understand
The key thing is really that we want to make people understand the risk with these flaws and that they enable automatic updates.
accelerate cause fast problems takes testing trigger
This is why it takes so long, but that's not to say that if there's an exploit, we won't accelerate testing and get it out there as fast as we can. But if we find problems in the testing phase, it could trigger a restart and cause even more delays.
anyway customer drove history looking people questions sure
We had been looking into detailing the history anyway and some customer questions drove the idea to write it up. We just wanted to make sure people had the history.
cnn computers hit keeping knew literally meeting reporting shutting target track tuesday word
We're literally in a meeting going over our plans, keeping track of things, when we got word on Tuesday that CNN was reporting they had been hit. At the time, we knew a high-profile target was reporting they had been hit and they didn't know what it was. Their computers were shutting down and restarting,
applying customers recommend risk tested weigh
We have not tested this mitigation tool. We can't recommend it because we have not tested it...Customers should weigh the risk of applying something like this to their systems.