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RE: How much longer..
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Fred Baker)
Wed Aug 13 15:09:31 2003
Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2003 12:08:29 -0700
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From: Fred Baker <fred@cisco.com>
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At 12:53 PM 8/13/2003 -0500, Ejay Hire wrote:
>I don't care what defective operating system a worm uses.
Yes. Lets recall that the first worm on the net was a sendmail worm, and
attacked UNIX systems. I'm no friend of Windows either, but a little
humility is in order. Windows is attacked because it is ubiquitous, not
because it is vulnerable. If the whole world ran Linux, the attacks would
be on Linux machines.
