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> From: Wojtek Zlobicki [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Sunday, August 05, 2001 3:09 PM > > <RANT> > > Nothing other than anti-Microsoft propaganda. You cannot > blame Microsoft > for high market share. But you can blame them for making Vbasic available to every email message that wants to rape your system. Boy, what a brain-fart that was. It still stinks. Repeat after me; nothing in an email message should be executable without express and very deliberate operator intervention. > The main reason that *Nix hosts are generally more > resilient to these type of worms is that it is less likely for a non > informed administrator to administer a *Nix sever. False. A very large portion of the *nux machines are in this sad condition. > If everyone that had a > IIS box available on the big I, installed all related > patches, worms like Code Red would never propagate very far. Sure they would, you'd just never notice it. A *real* programmer would have started CodeRed out at the current Level III version. > Raw socket support in NOT a bad thing. I wonder if Robert > Cringely and Steve Gibson are friends. Now here, we agree. > "Say goodbye to TCP/IP and to anonymous connections of any > kind. Hello to > Hailstorm, tracking everything down to the last mile, and a more > business-friendly Internet with prioritized packet-handling. " I've just been looking at Hailstorm, it sucks. Think "totalitarianism". Think, re-enforcment of monopoly position. > </RANT> > > I really encourage anyone with a tough skin, and looking for > a good laugh to > read this article. > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Robert Hough" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Sunday, August 05, 2001 12:23 AM > Subject: The Death of TCP/IP > > > > > > Felt like sharing this most amusing article that I discovered in my > > Inbox this morning: > > > > http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20010802.html > > > > -- > > Robert Hough ([email protected]) > >
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