Alan, I regard security matters as never-ending cat and mouse, whack-a-mole games of little interest. I mentioned this observation because I feel compelled to pursue truth wherever it leads, and the truth of this matter is wildly out of sync with perception. Whether it's by design or just ignorance, I can't say. It does occur to me that we, as programmers, knowing the potential of people and the tools involved, should be more circumspect.
Bill > > When our PC's are hit, it's a virus, but when Google and big companies get > > hit, it's an attack: > > > > > What happened at Google was almost certainly trojans dropped onto > systems by users opening PDFs with exploits in them, or very possibly > security flaws in web server software used at Google. But > they were out > to specifically get Google rather than infect machines at random hence > 'attack' I suppose. > -- > Alan Bourke > alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/88d709c5803543328ae2abda569da...@bills ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
