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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: product liability (was: Virus Update)
On Tue, May 09, 2000 at 10:56:33AM -0400, William Allen Simpson wrote: > Apparently, this is just another example where M$ ignored reports of > the security vulnerability for years, and now everyone else has to pay. > Lloyd's of London is estimating the cost at $8,000,000,000 and rising. actually, i don't think this is strictly microsoft's fault. the companies that "lost" that $8,000,000,000 are responsible for their own actions. they ignored the vulnerability reports as well. how long would they keep a voice mail system that automatically dialed the return number, regardless of local or long distance charges? one would hope that incidents like this would help educate the decision makers, but, alas, they are just sheep being gobbled up by the microsoft wolf. -- [ Jim Mercer [email protected] +1 416 506-0654 ] [ Reptilian Research -- Longer Life through Colder Blood ] [ Don't be fooled by cheap Finnish imitations; BSD is the One True Code. ]
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