>
> UncleDuke wrote:
>
> >>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.
>
> I was referring to computer security problems in general. If you want
> to talk semantics, the Morris Worm was just a buggy experimental program
> with no malicious intent. Morris could have been more careful, sure,
> but he didn't set out to cause problems.
>
Right you are! Almost anything with .ru is always suspect in my book.
Granted the Morris Worm was a very big oops(on his part), but the makers of
FUD made it a much ado about nothing. Funny how almost 20 years since that
incident times are still pretty much status quo. Except now you stuff like
the DMCA and the Patriot Act to worry about. They still haven't figured out
that security through obscurity never has worked, nor will it ever. In the
IT field you open your mouth you either get fired, thrown in jail or both!
And just think the IT dept here gets pissed that I firewall my laptop(which
was the ONLY Winduhs box not to get nailed by blaster and SoBig).
Greg
2K1 Dodge Neon ES
Rahway, NJ
http://kernelpanic.dyn.dhs.org/
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