On January 28, 2003 07:42 am, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> 1) MS software is nororiously insecure and is largely
>   responsible for the insecurity of the current IT
>   infrastructure, or


now i'm not a fan of micros~1, but i feel that i have to check this statement 
for accuracy.  in cases like "the sql slammer" the one at fault is definately 
not the author of the software, but rather the halfwit who's running it 
unpatched.  as i understand it, micros~1 had released a patch for mssql 
months ago, and this virus is only attacking the boxes that have yet to be 
patched.

just think about what the internet would be like if there were millions of 
linux users running 3year-old versions of apache & mysql...  i would propose 
that it's not just microsoft's inability (or unwillingness) to get their sh*t 
together, but also the ineptitude of these "sysadmins" that insist on running 
this software and don't know (or don't care to know) how to patch it...


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a man who feels the winds of change should build not a windbreak,
but a windmill.
        - mao tse tung



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