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Friday, January 28, 2005
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MySQL Worm Hits Windows Systems: "'A worm that takes advantage of administrators' poor password choices has started spreading among database systems.' Read more at ZDNet."
(Via OSNews.)
My setup looks OK, and I also took the opportunity, while I was on the server, of upgrading to the latest 4.1 release. Properly securing a MySQL installation isn't that hard, and it's one of the things I like about it. The PostgresSQL permissions system flummoxed me, which is one of the reasons I never got too far into it. I do mean to have a good look at the new version 8 of that one, though.
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Jon Carroll writes a particularly great column today, and opens with this amazing quote from Hannah Arendt:
In an ever-changing, incomprehensible world the masses had reached the point where they would, at the same time, believe everything and nothing, think that everything was possible and that nothing was true. ... Mass propaganda discovered that its audience was ready at all times to believe the worst, no matter how absurd, and did not particularly object to being deceived because it held every statement to be a lie anyhow. The totalitarian mass leaders based their propaganda on the correct psychological assumption that, under such conditions, one could make people believe the most fantastic statements one day, and trust that if the next day they were given irrefutable proof of their falsehood, they would take refuge in cynicism; instead of deserting the leaders who had lied to them, they would protest that they had known all along that the statement was a lie and would admire the leaders for their superior tactical cleverness."
As Carroll says, this "solves a basic problem that has been bothering me forever: The duplicity of the Bush administration is so transparent, why are more people not bothered by it?" The right has spent so many years destroying any confidence we might have in our ability to solve problems, that it's paved the way for us to not be surprised at, or even recoil from, the duplicity of the administration. As they used to say about Clinton, "where's the outrage?"
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