[55422] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: What could have been done differently?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Lesher)
Tue Jan 28 23:23:16 2003
From: David Lesher <wb8foz@nrk.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu (nanog list)
Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2003 23:18:25 -0500 (EST)
Reply-To: wb8foz@nrk.com
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
> Somewhere in the equation, the sysadmin/enduser, whether Unix
> or Windows, has to take some responsibility.
Hence I loved this:
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/28/technology/28SOFT.html
Worm Hits Microsoft, Which Ignored Own Advice
By JOHN SCHWARTZ
Among the companies that found its computer system under attack
by a rogue program was Microsoft, which has been preaching
the gospel of secure computing.
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