On Thu, 2003-08-14 at 16:55, Matthew S. Hallacy wrote:
>        "IT WORKS FINE FOR ME, AND THATS ALL THAT MATTERS"

Thats usually a few minutes before their ISP disconnects them because
their machine is running (a legitmately or worm installed) wide open
winproxy. :)

The problem being, is that abuse will eventually catch up to these, and
those people will bear mroe trouble than its worth.  Someday, however, I
expect people to figure it out, not people evangalizing to non-techies
about it.  I doubt they care, yet.

It was funny to see the speculation on /. about the worm causing the
power outage today.  Someday there will be an emergency caused by a
widespread security issue that people end up ignoring, and they will
start to learn why its important to care.  Scary enough, the CERT BOF at
usenix 2001 the #1 thing that scared a few of the guys there was
electricity control computer networks and their exposure to the
internet. (from their own consulting experience)  Of course, this was
'pre 9/11', but yikes.

Thanks!

-- 
Scott Dier <dieman at ringworld.org> KC0OBS http://www.ringworld.org/


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