I sent this email to the CIO of Battle Creek (found him thru a Wired link):
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Mr. Lee,
As you are no doubt aware the news was broken today that actions taken by your
department are responsible for the demise of the ORBZ anti-spam notification system.
This strikes me as a dereliction of your server administrator's responsibility and
nothing else. Any competent individual responsible for web-based systems is well
aware that security and update patches must be maintained or dire consequences can
result.
Lotus released a security patch that would have cured the subject problem on its
Domino product in September 2001. That was seven months ago.
Rather than prosecuting a good citizen providing a beneficent service to a grateful
world (who now think of you and the competence of your department in much less than
flattering terms), you should look to your own systems to see what else hasn't been
kept updated.
As a systems administrator myself, I do not appreciate the penalty I and legions of
other internet users are now paying for such ignorance, neglect and misplaced blame.
Sincerely,
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Matt Robertson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
MSB Designs, Inc., www.mysecretbase.com
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