OK, so the sysadmin should be held accountable because his system was
cracked? So if you leave my car unlocked for a minute, and someone
steals it, oh well, it's your own fault?
Get serious. If you leave a program with a known hole for an extended
time, you're being stupid, but that doesn't mean you should be held at
fault for being cracked. Just because I leave my house unlocked, doesn't
mean you can have my TV set.
On Tue, 22 May 2001, Kurth Bemis wrote:
> ah - isn't just like our goverment?
>
> gee - rat on your fiends, help us and we'll let you go free <wink><wink>.
> but if you don't do extacly as we say we'll throw your sorry ass in jail.
>
> what about the ILOVEYOU.vbs worm/virus? Can you really hold on person
> because the majority of people choose to use MS email clients. Many people
> asked what they could do to avoid this virus.....i told them to use eudora
> or pc-pine. nobody did and we made a killing on virus cleanup. why didn't
> they change e-mail clients...they didn't feel like downloading eudora or
> whatever other reason that people think of. Because of that laziness, a
> lot of people lost a lot of money. (corps and people)
>
> you can't hold one person responsible for somebody else's poor
> administration skills. Its similar to a mother(the goverment, the people)
> holding colt(Max Vision) responsible because her 5 year fould the gun a
> blew off his hand.(because sysadmins run BIND "Buggy Internet Name Deamon"
> that is insecure)
>
> or the lady the burned herself with mickey dees coffee because she's a
> moron. for about 3 months after she sued, everybody had to suffer with
> lukeworm coffee.
>
> arg. people. don't get me started :-)
>
> ~kurth
>
>
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