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From: northern snowfall <dbailey27@ameritech.net>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] is sources unreachable?
Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2003 10:57:23 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3F4CD4E3.7010701@ameritech.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0308270755110.12604-100000@maxroach.lanl.gov>

>
>
>yes, it's odd, but people equate "computers" with that OS. As in,
>"computers get viruses like this and that's the way it is". They have
>trouble understanding that, in fact, that's the way it is for that
>vulnerable OS.
>
Yeh. It really puts one's concept of society in perspective when Microsoft
wins the multi billion dollar bid of providing Homeland Security dept. with
servers and workstations. Not to mention the ramifications of SCADA being
ran by vulnerable MS systems.

IIRC, the latter was thought to be one of the reasons why the LSD guys
targeted DCOM.

Don

http://www.7f.no-ip.com/~north_




  reply	other threads:[~2003-08-27 15:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-08-27  5:46 lucio
2003-08-27 12:17 ` Jim Choate
2003-08-27 12:37   ` lucio
2003-08-27 12:45     ` Jim Choate
2003-08-27 13:45   ` northern snowfall
2003-08-27 12:49     ` David Presotto
2003-08-27 14:06       ` northern snowfall
2003-08-27 13:48         ` David Presotto
2003-08-27 13:56           ` ron minnich
2003-08-27 15:57             ` northern snowfall [this message]
2003-08-27 15:39               ` matt
2003-08-27 21:41                 ` northern snowfall
2003-08-27 21:58                   ` matt
2003-08-27 23:33                     ` northern snowfall
2003-08-27 22:44                       ` matt
2003-08-27 23:51                         ` northern snowfall
2003-08-27 14:29           ` Wes Kussmaul

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