In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Bobbie
<bobbie4R3MOV3TH1S@xxxxxxx>
wrote
on Wed, 26 Jul 2006 21:19:22 GMT
<pan.2006.07.26.21.20.22.762594@xxxxxxx>:
> On Wed, 26 Jul 2006 19:55:40 +0100, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>
>> Microsoft Acquires Medical Records System
>>
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>> | Microsoft Acquires Medical Records System From DC Hospital, Plans to Sell
>> | It Worldwide
>> `----
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>> http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/060726/microsoft_health_care.html?.v=1
>>
>> Another bite of death? I suspect they compete with Google on this. However,
>> this is quite unnerving. Back in the Windows 95 days, as teenagers, we used
>> to joke about 'nuking' (TCP/IP BSoD flaw) patients that were connected to
>> Windows. The Formula 1 deals, as well as Microsoft on the plane, is no
>> laughing matter. People's lives depend on security. Take, for example, this
>> story:
>>
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>> | Zombies attack Seattle hospital
>> |
>> | Published Friday 5th May 2006 13:58 GMT
>> |
>> | A California hacker has pleaded guilty to disrupting computer systems
>> | - including the network of a hospital - through a malware-fueled
>> | attack designed to install adware on infected PCs.
>> `----
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>> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/05/05/hospital_zombie_attack/
>>
>> It's just one among many.
>
> Malware?
> Windows Enterprise server doesn't need malware to go tits up.
No; it's an added bonus. ;-)
> Just interrupt the power supply to the server farm and sit back and watch
> the ensuing fun.
> Three days of festivities to be exact.
> Three days of listening to "Code Silver--Loss of computers still in effect".
Oooh, lovely. It can't figure out that something's come back online?
My brain hurts.
> Three days of watching the greatest Mine sweeper Consultant and Solitaire
> Experts to be found reboot and reboot and reboot and reboot.
>
And here I thought rebooting fixed the problem. *snort*
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