Thanks Rik, FWIW the full text of what I sent is: "The internet society & your report this morning fail to mention that there is only one operating system that is subject to the security problems you reported on - namely Mocrosoft Windows. Although all computer users must be wary of security issues, the users of Linux, BSD and Apple's MacOS X can relax about the threats of spyware, keyboard loggers etc. Experiments have shown that the average Windows computer is compromised within 10 minutes of going online to the internet.
By the way people who compromise other computer systems fraudulently are not hackers, they are crackers. To quote a popular definition "The basic difference is this: hackers build things, crackers break them". http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html#what_is"; However they only read out: "The internet society & your report this morning fail to mention that there is only one operating system that is subject to the security problems you reported on - namely Microsoft Windows. Experiments have shown that the average Windows computer is compromised within 10 minutes of going online to the internet." Thank heavens they didn't publicly laugh at my spelling mistake (Mocrosoft). On Mon, 07 Mar 2005 13:30:05 +1300 Richard Tindall wrote: > Kia ora tatou, > > Seeing as noone has documented this here or on NZOSS yet, I thought > someone should mention hearing the venerable GNU/Linux name of Nick Rout > on National Radio, early this morning. > > The topic featured was the banks' current advisories and differing > responses to Phishing keylogger & virus attacks, prevalent in Canterbury > at present it seems. > > Nick must have emailed Morning Report, as they quoted him something > like: 'what isn't clarified is that the only platform afected is > Windows. Research shows the average time for an online, unprotected > Windows box to be infected is just 20 minutes.' > > The announcer concluded: 'that's presumably from an Apple Mac user'. A > disappointing punchline, for us, which there is more to I'm guessing. > > So thanks for being on the ball Nick, at dawn, on behalf of our > favourite OS. Good effort. > > Cheers, > Rik > > -- > Richard Tindall, > InfoHelp Services, > Canterbury Technology Ltd. > > on Mozilla 1.7.2 free open source email client & browser -- Nick Rout Barrister & Solicitor Christchurch <http://www.rout.co.nz> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
