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Re: [News] [Rival] Windows Server Hijacked, 200,000 People's Records Compromised

  • Subject: Re: [News] [Rival] Windows Server Hijacked, 200,000 People's Records Compromised
  • From: "[H]omer" <spam@xxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sun, 20 May 2007 02:12:17 +0100
  • In-reply-to: <26825742.4gifJ5uNz1@schestowitz.com>
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Verily I say unto thee, that Roy Schestowitz spake thusly:

> Virus compromises 200,000 records at Community College of Southern Nevada
> 
> ,----[ Quote ]
> | The personal records of nearly 200,000 students were compromised when a
> | virus attacked a Microsoft Windows 2003 Server at the Community College
> | of Southern Nevada.
> `----
> 
> http://www.scmagazine.com/us/news/article/658373/virus-compromises-200000-records-community-college-southern-nevada/
> 
> People who use Windows to store information about people like you and me
> should be sacked. Not so long ago, credit card details of about 50 million
> people got stolen.

What the *hell* is it going to take to make these people see sense. If
you store sensitive data on a Windows box, you might as well publish it
on Digg. Don't they get it yet?

-- 
K.
http://slated.org

.----
| 'Also, no one calls it PCI-X even though that's the "official "
| shortening of the much more commonly used "PCI Express".'
|    - Hardon Quirk, COLA's resident "genius".
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