On Mon, 07 Mar 2005 14:14, Nick Rout wrote: > 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).
Freudian slip. It's a Mockup of what should be a great company, but is instead a big bully. > > > > 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 -- Clinersterton beademung, with all of love - RIP James Blish ----- Mau e ki, he aha te mea nui? You ask, what is the most important thing? Maku e ki, he tangata, he tangata, he tangata. I reply, it is people, it is people, it is people.
