[126979] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Nato warns of strike against cyber attackers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Larry Sheldon)
Wed Jun 9 11:08:09 2010
Date: Wed, 09 Jun 2010 10:07:56 -0500
From: Larry Sheldon <LarrySheldon@cox.net>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <20100609130521.GB1482697@hiwaay.net>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 6/9/2010 08:05, Chris Adams wrote:
> Once upon a time, JC Dill <jcdill.lists@gmail.com> said:
>> 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.
>
> Many of the problems are PEBKAC, as evidenced by the massive responses
> to phishing scams. I can't tell you the number of our users that have
> sent their password to Nigeria to be used to log in to our webmail and
> spam.
In other words, if somebody is going to handle the problem, the people
that know how ("ISP's" for want of a term) are going to have to do it.
--
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Freedom under a constitutional republic is a well armed lamb contesting
the vote.
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