[43188] in North American Network Operators' Group
New use for AOL CDs (was Re: Your customer's ...)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sean Donelan)
Mon Oct 1 23:43:33 2001
Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2001 23:55:32 -0400 (EDT)
From: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Cc: Wojtek Zlobicki <wojtekz@idirect.com>, <nanog@merit.edu>
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On Mon, 1 Oct 2001 Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
> On the flip side, if you can't keep the users from doing stupid things,
> how will you ever secure it? Yes, his proposals are laughable - but do
> you want to even TRY to secure an infrastructure where Gibson's stuff
> is NOT done?
A dumb suggestion, but why doesn't Microsoft hire AOL to include all its
recommended patches for Windows on the CD's AOL sends to everyone on
the planet? That way users don't have to wait for hours for all the
patches downloading on their 28k modems.
