Re: OT: Microshaft in the news....again.

From: andy levy (andy-dml@levyclan.us)
Date: Wed Feb 11 2004 - 18:51:36 EST


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On 2/11/2004 4:12 PM, Josh Battles wrote:

| The reason that consumer news doesn't report on what the exact
| vulnerabilities are is because most consumers don't have any need for that
| information, nor would they know what to do with it if they received it.

More the latter than the former. Get technical and the sheeple will
tune out, and not patch their systems.

| Plus, giving that kind if info to the general public would also be
giving it
| to the virus creators.

They already have it. And have for a while. MS was informed of this
vulnerability 200 days ago. It's taken them that long to address it.
This is what we get with closed source, single-source,
deathgrip-controlled software.

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