On Wed, 03 Apr 2013 03:33:17 +0200 Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerar...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> But somebody had to blow it up. And even more people jumped on it. > Boohoo. > So the next time you start insulting people, base your findings on > more than a blog written by those guys who have an economical > interest to blow the whole mess out of proportion. > Of course, those responsible - all those guys with unpatched boxes > whose little zombies took part in this attack, need a good kicking. > But that is no excuse for spamming mailing lists with something the > media already abused to no end. Yeah because it is all their fault. You know the cleaner down the road and not Microsoft (linux is beginning to follow a similar road awayfrom it's secure fs based and modular approach with polkit), Adobe or the IETF who though warned turned 3gbit/s into 300gbit/s. Hmmm, imagine a worm red now and with ntp so prevalent too. Blown out of proportion, really?, maybe this particular instance? I can understand the list spam argument though.