Interesting article about window ethics-free practices

[Chong Yu Meng]

On Thu, 2006-06-08 at 23:19 -0400, Kurt Wall wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 07, 2006 at 08:23:16PM -0600, Collins Richey wrote:
> > http://software.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=06/06/06/1832223&from=rss
> 
> Interesting read. The security industry certainly has a vested interest
> in maintaining a constant state of hysteria.
> 

My wife works in the security industry and the hysteria helps pay the
bills ;) 

In any case, people in the US and Western Europe have it better, I
think, because the stuff from Redmond is not so prevalent there. In
Southeast Asia, after the dot-com bust, just about every network runs on
That Other Operating System now. Say what you like, but the recurring
need to reboot, patch, monitor and re-install servers and desktops keeps
a lot of engineers employed -- even former *NIX administrators -- albeit
in reduced circumstances.

> On the other hand, I just got my letter from the VA today informing me
> that my personally identifiable data was among the 26.5 million that got
> stolen with an employee's laptop. Of course, in this case, the latest
> spyware/anti-virus/malware update wouldn't have mattered.
> 

What exactly was stolen, Kurt ? Does it mean that somebody will post
your military records on the Internet, or was it just the usual name,
rank, serial number(?)

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Pascal Chong 
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