Delivery problems: something for you

[Bill Campbell]

On Fri, Feb 27, 2004, dep wrote:
>quoth Bill Campbell:
>
>| Perhaps people might get the idea if one of these worms reformatted
>| every Windows hard drive on the 'Net.
>
>the *only* thing about the internet that surprises me is that no one has 
>done this yet. the mechanism is well enough known that it would be 
>trivial not only to create such a package but to make it different 
>enough from the signatures of other infections that it would have taken 
>'em all out before the scanners caught up. the cost would run into the 
>hundreds of billions of dollars. the class-action lawsuits would be 
>colorful, and they would keep both msft and the tort vultures busy for 
>quite awhile. of course, it would also trash lots of retirement 
>programs that are too heavily invested in msft.
>
>a very serious disclaimer: the above is hypothetical and is not intended 
>to suggest that anything mentioned (well, with the exception of wasting 
>the time of tort lawyers) would be good or admirable and, to the 
>contrary, i think that anyone creating such a program should spend the 
>rest of his or her days in jail.

As should corporate managers who entrusted their corporate data and assets
to Windows.  I put that in the same category as running a bank where the
vault is secured with paper clips or three wheel rotary keyed padlocks.

Bill
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