Can we all shut up now? I know most of you are bored, please try to find
something else to occupy yourselves with. I did not sign up to this list
for childish banter (even though that is what I get most of the time,
this is far exceeding the normal limit).
Raj Mathur wrote:
"Ted" == Ted Frederick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Ted> Dear list, I know that this list is not meant for personal
Ted> promotion but I think I would be remiss if I did not mention
Ted> that my company has recently released an upgrade to our
Ted> initial offering of Shoe 1.0. The upgrade to Shoe 2.0
Ted> includes a firewall/anti-virus product previously known as
Ted> Sock 3.4563.v54.
Ted> The upgrade cost is $19.99. There is also a required software
Ted> assurance subscription of $325.79 monthly.
Ted> If all goes well with the new product I suspect that we will
Ted> be purchased by a major software vendor before year end thus
Ted> making updates available on the first Tuesday of every month
Ted> to protect against further holes. These updates will have
Ted> vague names with no indication of what they actually fix
Ted> which should relieve you of sparing any thought to what risks
Ted> you may have been exposed to prior to the patch.
Ted> Yes, we have in fact thought of everything so you don't have
Ted> to.
I'm afraid you have fallen into the common trap of suggesting a
hardwear solution for what is essentially a softwear problem. I'd
have been much happier to see the softwear vendors acknowledge this
vulnerability (it's endemic, not specific to one vendor) and offer
upgrades to their softwear on a regular basis.
I'm making a compilation of socks v5.0 softwear available in the
market and subjecting them to stress testing; the testing includes
running 2KM after subjecting the softwear to dipping in Sewer 0.2,
having /bin/cat /bin/sleep on them for 2 days, and a cron job to
periodically transfer them to and from a Windows system. The results
of this testing will be available for a nominal fee(*).
I also suspect that by the end of the testing the softwear will have
metamorphosed into those elusive WMDs that have been, uh, eluding us
for so long.
(*) Standard nominal fee is half your kingdom and your daughter's hand
in marriage).
Regards,
-- Raju
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