OT: Here we go again ...

[Bruce Marshall]

On Wednesday 17 September 2003 18:38 pm, Joel Hammer wrote:
> Wouldn't it be great if people starting saying, enuf is enuf.
>
> Maybe if people whose computers were cracked and taken over by hackers
> faced legal sanctions (fines, suspension of service, etc.), they would
> take responsibility to fix up their boxes. Now, the lazy bones (or is
> it brain dead?) windows users just sit and get hit like sitting ducks.
> I guess they expect MS to protect them, even if they do nothing to
> protect themselves.
>
> I guess brain dead users are just to valuable to drive off the
> internet.
>
> Just like Scott Adams said, stupidity is the limitless energy supply
> of the 21th century.
>
> Joel

I agree.  Wouldn't it be nice if the HSA determined that all the flaws in 
MS software was the real security threat that it is?  My guess is that 
it would take a group of about 5 hackers, determined to bring the 
Internet to its knees, about 5 days to do so..

But they would probably find better ways to destroy us than a DOS attack.

(and my estimate is probably off by at least a factor of 2)



>
> On Tue, Sep 16, 2003 at 10:38:44PM -0500, Michael Hipp wrote:
> > http://apnews.excite.com/article/20030916/D7TJP93G0.html
> >
> > By TED BRIDIS
> >
> > WASHINGTON (AP) - Security researchers on Tuesday detected hackers
> > distributing software to break into computers using flaws announced
> > last week in some versions of Microsoft Corp. (MSFT)'s Windows
> > operating system.
>
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