On Sun, 23 Sep 2001, Jean Francois Martinez wrote:
> If you try to patch a box you don't own you could be sued. I have a
> better idea: write a worm who mails to the ISP asking for the site
> being shut down. Given the looong list of problems with ISS and NTwe
> can tell those people are endangering the Internet and the whole
> system of email and ecommerce. Since there is a distinct possibility
> the Internet being hit by a cyberterrorist massive DDOS attack we can
> no longer be tolerated. During WWII those who didn't respect the
> blackout rules were fined (or worse) since their lights helped ennemy
> bombers and endangered whole cities. Since USA are in war against
> terrorism and by applying the same reasonment they should not tolerate
> IIS on the net. Time to blackout windows.
i'm surprised that no one has pressed this issue more forcefully.
given that windows boxen are hopelessly insecure, if the federal
government is serious about fighting terrorism (which these days
clearly includes cyber-terrorism), why is there no push to distance
sensitive government sites from microsoft software and use demonstrably
more secure open-source software, such as apache?
it's maddening that the government seems to have the spare time to
produce idiotic legislation like DMCA and SSSCA, yet doesn't have the
sense to see how the entire american IT infrastructure leaks like a
sieve because of its reliance on microsoft software.
perhaps i just haven't noticed, but has *anyone* in congress made the
connection yet?
rday
--
Robert P. J. Day
Eno River Technologies, Durham NC
Unix, Linux and Open Source training
Microsoft: Committed to putting the "backward" into "backward compatibility."
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