[126931] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Nato warns of strike against cyber attackers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Owen DeLong)
Wed Jun 9 01:28:13 2010
From: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTikykjsxVd3JDVE3oqmCBnSrkncn-_m00lROA5L5@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 8 Jun 2010 22:22:47 -0700
To: Paul Ferguson <fergdawgster@gmail.com>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Jun 8, 2010, at 9:05 PM, Paul Ferguson wrote:
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> On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 8:59 PM, JC Dill <jcdill.lists@gmail.com> =
wrote:
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>> I'm still truly amazed that no one has sic'd a lawyer on Microsoft =
for
>> creating an "attractive nuisance" - an operating system that is too
>> easily hacked and used to attack innocent victims, and where others =
have
>> to pay to clean up after Microsoft's mess.
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> Do you honestly believe that if 80% of the world's consumer computers =
were
> *not* MS operating systems, that the majority of computers would still =
not
> be targeted?
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Targeted? Yes.
Successfully compromised? Less so.
Look at it this way... The vast majority of web servers are Apache, yet, =
IIS is compromised
far more often.
Yes, Micr0$0ft is a major contributor to the problem.
> Please, be for real -- the criminals go after the entrenched majority. =
If
> it were any other OS, the story would be the same.
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If this were true, the criminals would be all over Apache and yet it is =
IIS that gets
compromised most often.
Owen
