__/ [ Ian Hilliard ] on Sunday 04 June 2006 18:35 \__
> Ian Hilliard wrote:
>
>> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>>
>>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>> |The school's electronic-security team discovered that a server within
>>> |alumni relations had been commandeered and was being used in a denial of
>>> |service attack. The Social Security numbers of about 137,000 people were
>>> |stored in that server.
>>> `----
>>>
>>>
>>
> http://news.com.com/2100-7349_3-6071505.html?part=rss&tag=6071505&subj=news
>>>
>>> Some of my claimed above were revealed to the public a few days after
>>> this fist scoop from CNET (they still advertise Vista, by the way, just
>>> like Linux Today).
>>>
>>> Best wishes,
>>>
>>
>> Isn't nice to see that there is no mention of the OS in use. For those in
>> the know, this generally means that it is Windows as the OS would have
>> been specified otherwise. Unfortunately for Joe Sixpack, he just thinks
>> that every OS but Windows has problems, because Windows doesn't get
>> mentioned alone with the long list of crimes, which have been possible to
>> commit because of the inherent lack of security in Microsoft Windows(TM).
>
> Come to think of it, outside of the trade press, Joe Sixpack generally
> doesn't get to hear that there exist other OS's than Microsoft Windows(TM).
It is a crazy world we live in, Ian. Even this redundant one-liner I could
not help but utter.
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