M$ Uses Rape Defense...
The SQL Slammer Worm is still lose causing problems. It hit suddenly and wickedly. But the fallout has been typical of most of these security events. Microsoft gets up and tells us how they are making real progress on security, then notes that it was a hole patched many months ago, so it's the users fault as usual. For some reason I can't get the image of Jodie Foster out of my head.
I am sure that the Korean stock brokers trading with paper and pencil, felt bad about not having installed the obscure patch (wonder why Korea is moving to Linux in a big way). Ask the people standing in line trying to get cash, or make deposits in one of the 13,000 BOA ATMs effected by this Worm. Ask the shareholders of Korean ISPs who watched their stock drop in value due to the impact of the virus.
Meanwhile in Redmond, there was a mad scramble as they tried to deal with the internal impact of the Worm. Of course this isn't the first time Microsoft has been nailed by a patch it hadn't installed.
...Microsoft spokesman Rick Miller declined to say which areas or how many computers at Microsoft were affected. He acknowledged that some servers were left unfixed because administrators "didn't get around to it when they should have."...
..."On the one hand, Microsoft's been saying it's the customer's fault for not patching their networks," but the company's own failure to do so "show(s) how unrealistic that expectation is. It's very much like blaming the victim."...
Ask yourself, if Microsoft can't keep up with it's own patches, then who really is to blame? Then go and install MySQL...mj
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