Der var måske en del, der læste den artikel i CW, hvor der stod beskrevet at Windows 2000 har fået et blåt stempel for sikkerheden. Jonathan S. Shapiro, Ph.D. fra Johns Hopkins University Information Security Institute har forsøgt at forklare hvad det betyder:
“In the case of CAPP, an EAL4 evaluation tells you everything you need to know. It tells you that Microsoft spent millions of dollars producing documentation that shows that Windows 2000 meets an inadequate set of requirements, and that you can have reasonably strong confidence that this is the case.”