[65219] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Santa Fe city government computers knocked out by worm
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex Yuriev)
Mon Nov 17 10:14:03 2003
Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2003 06:26:50 -0500 (EST)
From: Alex Yuriev <alex@yuriev.com>
To: "Dr. Jeffrey Race" <jrace@attglobal.net>
Cc: "nanog@merit.edu" <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <E1ALSEf-0000p7-00@smtp01.mrf.mail.rcn.net>
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> >No explaination why Sante Fe officials had not patched the city's
> >computers in the three months since Microsoft announced the vulnerability
> >and released the software updates. Nor why Sante Fe didn't have up to
> >date anti-virus programs running on its computers.
>
> Nor why they were using such rubbish software for a mission-
> critical system.
>
Because for people outside our little industry the software is a tool to get
a JOB done, not the job itself.
Alex
