>
> Jim Miller WB5OXQ wrote:
>
> > You may have noticed one of the virus creaters has been caught
> and is going
> > to have to do prison time for it. Maybe thet will detur others
> from trying
> > that stuff.
>
> Not likely. The one who got caught was allegedly connected to
> MSBlaster, which is not the one that's emailing the world. Kevin
> Mitnick did years in prison (several of them without trial) and did it
> deter anyone? People get convicted for murder all the time. Does that
> deter anyone?
Mitnick (same for Bernie S. and Fiber Optik)got rat-fscked over nothing.
Total BS.. So he made fools of Fed's and in particular Socamaura(sp). DOn't
believe the BS you have read in the NY Times(John Markoff is a scumbag and
an outright LIAR). The movie Takedown was such BS (thank you Miramax). You
want the truth see "Freedom Downtime".
> And consider that most of these things originate outside the US, often
> in countries that couldn't care less about it.
Not really.. The Melissa virus originated right here in good ole Jersey.
Robert Morris(the Morris Worm of 1988) was at Cornell.
> What blows my mind is that Microsoft gets away with allowing holes like
> this to happen year after year after year - and people put up with it!
> Though I've heard of several large organizations giving other platforms
> the green light after being sick of putting up with all this crap lately.
>
M$ products have been buggy and open since MS-DOS 1.0 . M$ is only concerned
with making money PERIOD. BillyG pays alot of lipservice so that M$ can keep
it's dominance on the desktop market(to the point of bankrolling SCO's
lawsuit against IBM and possibly Linux distributors over supposed IP in the
Linux kerenl, and just flatout lying..remember FUD). But yes alot of corp's
are moving over to Linux. To the point that my company is going to send me
and several other engineers to RH for our RHCE's. Even Novell is embracing
Linux(to note the GUI in Netware 6.0 is based on Xwindows), along with "New"
HP, and Dell. We won't see M$ go away but their desktop marketplace is going
to go to hell(hopefully), and just become a bit player in the future.
Greg (NYC2600)
2K1 Dodge Neon ES
Rahway, NJ
http://kernelpanic.dyn.dhs.org/
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