On Sat, 25 Jan 2003, Alex Rubenstein wrote: > > On Sat, 25 Jan 2003, Stephen J. Wilcox wrote: > > > > Somebody remind me why Microsoft is still allowed to exist? > > > > Dunno, arent they negligent? > > > > In any other industry a fundemental flaw would be met with lawsuits, in the > > computer world tho people seem to get around for some reason. > > Including the developers of SSHD, HTTPD, NAMED, CVS? > > How about Linus? Wanna call him up?
Not sure you can claim something you have for free is liable or with guarantee > I am no windows cheerleader, but to think this is something that happens > only in windows-land is whack -- might as well put your head in the sand. True altho it does appear to affect MS more so than it ought to even considering their market lead. > Simple philosophy: Everything sucks at all times and all places. Routers, > switches, hosts, OS's. We, as operators, have to do our best to deal. I expect my purchases to live up to their sales description > It's arguable you are as liable as anyone else, since this particular > exploit is 'old news' and a patch has been available for it for some time. I'm not hit, its my customers! > Also; everyone who just posted to this list made it abundantly clear that > they don't have a firewall in front of at least one MS SQL server on their > network. Should you really have port 1433/4 open to the world? Would you > do this with a MySql server? Yes, thats bad.. people should be more clueful than they are, I blame folks being cheap, having staff who are clueless, low quality equipment, this is the market we're in. Steve