__/ [ William Poaster ] on Monday 09 October 2006 18:56 \__
> On Mon, 09 Oct 2006 13:49:51 +0100, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>
>> __/ [ William Poaster ] on Monday 09 October 2006 13:19 \__
>>
>>> On Mon, 09 Oct 2006 07:54:43 +0100, Mark Kent wrote:
>>>
>>>> begin oe_protect.scr
>>>> B Gruff <bbgruff@xxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>>>>> On Monday 09 October 2006 00:43 Roy Culley wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/5414696.stm
>>>>>>
>>>>>> More Britons fear net crime than they do burglary, a survey
>>>>>> suggests.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The Get Safe Online study released by the government found 21% of
>>>>>> respondents felt most at risk from net crime, while 16% worried
>>>>>> most about being burgled.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> A BBC investigation into net-based attacks on Windows PCs found
>>>>>> they could happen as much as every 15 minutes.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> At least every hour, an unprotected PC set up as a honeypot
>>>>>> logged a malicious attack that could render it unusable or make
>>>>>> it access other machines.
>>>>>
>>>>> - or perhaps even better, see this:-
>>>>>
>>>>> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/5414502.stm
>>>>>
>>>>> Auntie has got it right at last - not "compters", not "PCs", but
>>>>> "Windows PC".
>>>>>
>>>>> Catch for this:-
>>>>>
>>>>> "The BBC honeypot was a standard PC running Windows XP Pro that was
>>>>> made as secure as possible. This ran a software program called VMWare
>>>>> which allows it to host another guest operating system. Via VMWare we
>>>>> installed an unprotected version of Windows XP Home configured like
>>>>> any domestic PC"
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> Wonder why they didn't use a linux pc and host the Windows Home in
>>>> that? Ahhh, of course, the ignorant would blame linux then, wouldn't
>>>> they... they wouldn't understand what vmware does.
>>>
>>> However, as it's being hosted via VMWare on a Windows computer, the
>>> wintrolls have no comeback, crying their usual "linux zealots" crap. The
>>> BBC must have got wise as to how unsafe Windows really is.
>>
>> Technical writers -- yes. But not the Suits who can be dined and wined.
>
> Typical of suits, who are nearly as smart as they think they are.
>
>> BBC Looks To Microsoft For Web 2.0
>>
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>> | However, you don't sign deals or commitments if you're a
>> | quasi-autonomous Public Corporation operating as a public service
>> | broadcaster, as the BBC is. BBC Director General Mark Thompson met
>> | Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates in Seattle on Wednesday to sign the
>> | non-exclusive memorandum of understanding and discuss the BBC's digital
>> | strategy.
>> `----
>>
>>
http://www.forbes.com/2006/09/28/bbc-microsoft-internet-cx_cn_0928bbc.html?partner=yahootix
>> http://tinyurl.com/j5pn7
>
> I saw this last week, or the week before. Personally, & I've said it
> before, I wish we could stop paying the BBC licence fee.
I have given away from television set so that I no longer need to pay
licenses. But it wasn't anything pro- or anti-BCC.
Either way, the BBC is unable to even learn from itself...
More than 95% of e-mail is 'junk'
,----[ Quote ]
| More than 95% of e-mail is junk, be it spam, error messages or
| viruses, report mail monitoring firms.
|
| [...]
|
| Further work has shown that most of this junk mail is originating
| on hijacked home computers.
|
| E-mail security firm Return Path said 99% of the computers it monitors
| that send mail have been taken over by spammers or virus writers.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/5219554.stm
*sigh* From the mouth of technical folks.
,----[ Quote ]
| Reliability and the ability to change code, rather than cost, are
| driving the increased use of Linux at the BBC, according to Damion
| Yates, team leader of internet operations at BBC Technology.
|
| Speaking ahead of his presentation at the Linux User and Developer Expo
| in London tomorrow, Yates told Computer Weekly that Linux is being used
| on several projects even though there is no overall BBC strategy to
| support open source technology.
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http://www.computerweekly.com/articles/article.asp?liArticleID=129999&liArticleTypeID=1&liCategoryID=1&liChannelID=126&liFlavourID=1&sSearch=&nPage=1
I sometimes wonder how Gates has managed to influence the media so easily.
Ha! Actually I know the answer...
Bill Gates lends cash to buy newspapers
$350 million to MediaNews
,----[ Quote ]
| Gates involvement has been very behind the scenes. In fact many of
| those involved in the deal didn'teven know he was one of the investors.
| It was carried out through the Gates Foundation, the world's largest
| philanthropy outfit.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=33849
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