[Tfug] MS vulnerability and MS

Leo Przybylski tfug@tfug.org
Tue Jan 28 15:13:02 2003


Ohohoh...I like the last one!

-Leo Przybylski

Choprboy wrote:

>On Tuesday 28 January 2003 02:28 pm, Robert D Zeigler wrote:
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>>From the NY Times . . . found this one rather amusing. ;) (Maybe everyone
>>else here already knew, dunno).
>>(NY Times January 28, 2003)
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>Yep, its all over the news right now. Read a simillar article about a hour ago 
>on Slashdot/News.com/CNET/TheRegister/ect.
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>One of my favorite quotes, from the News.com article, as to why machines are 
>not patched:
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>  "Seems like every time I install a system patch, something else goes wrong 
>with my system," said Frank Beier, president of Web design firm Dynamic Webs. 
>The designer said many system administrators won't patch for many months, 
>because they don't trust Microsoft to fix the problem without breaking some 
>other function of the software.
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>"In most cases, I'm better off just playing Russian roulette with the hackers 
>until our servers are broken into," he said.
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>Adrian 
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