[94856] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Every incident is an opportunity (was Re: Hackers hit key Internet
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Gadi Evron)
Mon Feb 12 04:25:40 2007
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2007 03:23:26 -0600 (CST)
From: Gadi Evron <ge@linuxbox.org>
To: Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@nic.fr>
Cc: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>, nanog <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20070212091339.GD16198@nic.fr>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Mon, 12 Feb 2007, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:
>
> On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 01:45:41AM -0500,
> Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com> wrote
> a message of 16 lines which said:
>
> > The important lesson is you can educate people. The content may have
> > been bogus,
>
<snip>
> > If you can come up with a few simple things to do, it is possible to
> > reach most of the public.
>
> Sure, just find these few simple things that will actually improve
> security. (My personal one would be "Erase MS-Windows and install
> Ubuntu". If we are ready to inconvenience ordinary workers with
> computer security, this one would be a good start.)
As a very smart person said a couple of weeks ago when this same argument
was made: are you willing to do tech-support for my mother is she uses
linux?
Gadi.
