From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <3F4CD4E3.7010701@ameritech.net> From: northern snowfall User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS sun4u; en-US; rv:0.9.4.1) Gecko/20020518 Netscape6/6.2.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] is sources unreachable? References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2003 10:57:23 -0500 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 23f49abe-eacc-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 > > >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_