> From: William T Goodall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > On Saturday, August 30, 2003, at 04:14 pm, Julia Thompson wrote: > > > William T Goodall wrote: > >> > >> On Friday, August 29, 2003, at 11:45 pm, Julia Thompson wrote: > >> > >>> He's under house arrest now. Article at > >>> > >>> http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=&e=2&u=/ap/20030829/ > >>> ap_on_hi_te/internet_attack > >>> > >>> Links to related articles on the same page. > >>> > >>> If he is convicted, I wouldn't mind the sentence including weekly > >>> visits > >>> from Bob the Dinosaur for awhile.... > >> > >> An even better idea would be to arrest those at Micro$oft responsible > >> for producing 'operating systems' with such hopelessly inadequate > >> security features, and charge them with negligence. > > > > That'd be good. Then the cost of the sobig.f worn or virus or whatever > > it technically is would be even *higher*. >:) > > If Micro$oft's negligence is why these costly security breaches occur, > shouldn't Micro$oft be paying compensation? That is normally what > happens when a company produces defective products isn't it?
There is no security hole in the sofeware on this one. Just user stupidity. And yet you try and blame it on microsoft. Perhaps we should start sueing all the users who spread sobig.f for being stupid? _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
