<OT> Edwards Air Force Base computers shut down due to worm

[Tom Marinis]

burns wrote:
> On Fri, 2003-08-15 at 15:25, Bill Campbell wrote:
> 
> 
>>A more obvious question is why they're running mission-critical
>>applications on Windows in the first place!  
> 
> 
> They may not be. The people that write these articles sometimes do not
> have the full story and occasionally are clueless, themselves. 
> 
> Traditionally, DoD would employ Unix systems such as Solaris on command
> & Control and other mission-critical systems, while Windows would be an
> option for general desktop systems. What they may be referring to is the
> shutdown of their general use (MIS) WAN, rather than Operational
> Information Systems. 

I wouldn't know either way.  It's laughable, in either case.

All I can tell you is that the 5 companies that I
visited yesterday afternoon, running W2K and WinXP,
had their sys admins finishing backups early.


These people were also physically disconnecting the
firewalls from the external routers, DSU/CSU,
T1, ISDN circuits  in anticipation for Saturday's
ping fest at MS.

You should have seen some of the looks I got when
I told them the same thing just before leaving,

"Don't you wish you were running Linux right about now? "

Hell, I even had an expensive pen thrown at me for my
trouble.  ]:-}