VIRUS (Worm.SCO.A) IN YOUR MAIL

[cdevers at pobox.com (Chris Devers)]

On Tue, 27 Jan 2004, Dan Barrett wrote:

> On Tuesday 27 January 2004 13:33, Chris Devers wrote:
> 
> > You say that as if it's a good thing. Or a bad thing, from the other
> > point of view. Isn't it the Right thing though?
> 
> 
> I never thought of it as a security feature, principally because the
> vendor's track record shows security to be a non-priority.  I filed it
> under the same reason why proprietary UNIX vendors don't ship their C
> compilers with the operating system. 

Oh I'm sure the fact that they are doing the right thing didn't happen
because they had the right reasons in mind, but nonetheless, by shipping a
system that didn't have that capability, they made it that much harder for
casual pranksters to abuse the mail networks. 

> <RHETORICAL_QUESTION>
> But that would be awesome.  Windows users are already armed to the teeth
> with ways to barf all over the public network, why not just give them
> one more self-destruct button? 
> </RHETORICAL_QUESTION>


heh




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Chris Devers