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Re: Over a decade of DDOS--any progress yet?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jack Bates)
Wed Dec 8 11:06:33 2010
Date: Wed, 08 Dec 2010 10:06:27 -0600
From: Jack Bates <jbates@brightok.net>
To: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
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On 12/8/2010 9:43 AM, JC Dill wrote:
> Why isn't ANYONE going after Microsoft over this? If Microsoft were held
> accountable for the spam and DDOSs that spew from their crappy software,
> they would find a way to stop the problem. I've raised this issue
> before, IMHO Windows OSs are "attractive nuisances" and that legal
> argument can be used to hold Microsoft responsible for not putting an
> adequate "fence" around their "attractive nuisance".
>
I call BS. Windows has it's problems, but it is the most common
exploited as it holds the largest market share. Many Windows infections
I've seen occur not due to the OS, but due to lack of patching of
applications on the OS. The system does as much as it can.
I've seen plenty of webmail/php/cgi hacks to not blame M$ for having
market share.
Jack
