-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, 25 Jan 2003, Jason Coombs wrote: > > And to think...up until tonight, I thought the vulnerabilities > > that paved the way for Nimda were the worst that Microsoft could do > > to the net.community. They've really topped themselves this time. > > As of now we don't know who wrote the worm, but we do know that it looks > like a concept worm with no malicious payload. There is a good argument > to be made in favor of such worms. Oh, that doesn't bother me. Net.downtime actually gives me an excuse to take some time off and do other things. What bothers me is that the very vendor that claims that their closed source approach is "more secure" (and insists that Open Source is a "threat to national security") and makes all manner of noises about how they're raising the bar on security standards is THE VERY SAME vendor that has done more to destabilize the 'net than any other vendor...BAR NONE. That's what really sticks in my craw. > Before you get upset at your vendor, or anyone else's, consider the bigger > picture and recognize the increased security hardening the Internet just > received. Sure. And spontaneously-combusting consumer products are just a community service announcement on the value of fire insurance. Sorry, I don't buy the claim that this fault of Microsoft's and the MS-SQL worm are going to result in any sort of "hardening" of the 'net. Hell, Nimda came out on September 18, 2001 and I have YET to see an end to its presence on the 'net. - -Jay ( ( _______ )) )) .-"There's always time for a good cup of coffee."-. >====<--. C|~~|C|~~| (>------ Jay D. Dyson - jdyson@treachery.net ------<) | = |-' `--' `--' `How about a 10-day waiting period on YOUR rights?' `------' -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (TreacherOS) Comment: See http://www.treachery.net/~jdyson/ for current keys. iD8DBQE+MxnmTqL/+mXtpucRAgASAKCs9OwErZYOvEIxv6ZfSstWMYQstwCbBGtS C/LdyRjed9PYs9cIWhvBr8E= =GCri -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
