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Worm bait?



On Wed, Aug 20, 2003 at 11:02:50PM +0000, John Chambers wrote:
> you want to attack.  And it has to have an opening  so  you
> actually can attack it successfully.
> 
> The latter is mostly  what  makes  Microsoft's  systems  so
> popular with virus/worm writers.  People may hate MS, true,
> but security holes in the software is what  really  enables
> the attacks.

Indeed, and I did say that: the software is crap.  It was not my
intention to emphasize the hate factor over the crap factor.  :)
I hope no one got that idea...

-- 
Derek D. Martin
http://www.pizzashack.org/
GPG Key ID: 0xDFBEAD02
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