Re: network problems

[Marcus G. Daniels]

>>>>> "SR" == M Lang / S Railsback <address@hidden> writes:

SR> For you paranoids and pessimists here is reason to think this
SR> problem will get worse even for Linux users:
SR> http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20010802.html

As far as I can tell his argument amounts to "bad things happens,
people get afraid, and then big companies will exploit that fear to
get more power."  This is supposed to be a novel observation?  (And of
course we must not question these companies because our mutual funds
are all tied-up with the same..)

The Code Red things amounts to someone exploiting a programming
mistake in the Microsoft web server and some other web-related
servers (but not in the same way).  By his argument, we should shut
down the web because it is a dangerous protocol.

I prefer this article:

http://www.time.com/time/columnist/taylor/article/0,9565,169678,00.html




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