On Mon, 2024-01-22 at 09:57 -0700, Joe Zeff wrote: > Back around the turn of the Millenium, I had a caller who wanted to know > if he could use MS Home Web Server (I think it was) to set up a > website. (If you have to ask, you probably shouldn't be doing it.) I > tried to explain the risks, but he wanted to learn from experience, so I > told him that he could. I can't help but wondering how many times he > got pwnd before he learned his lesson.
I remember trying that out on Win98SE, just within a LAN. Gawd, it was a pain. And I'm sure it was full of buffer overflows, like all Microsoft products. The trouble with the "give them enough rope" approach is that they don't just shoot themselves in the foot, their compromised computer spews garbage that makes everyone else's life a pain (spreading spam and viruses). But Windows users are so used to their computer being a russian roulette machine that they don't consider it's wrong, and that they shouldn't be doing something that causes havoc for other people. -- NB: All unexpected mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted. I will only get to see the messages that are posted to the list. The following system info data is generated fresh for each post: uname -rsvp Linux 6.2.15-100.fc36.x86_64 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Thu May 11 16:51:53 UTC 2023 x86_64 -- _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
