“Some think the software maker is at fault for the latest viruses. But you can’t blame a target. “Let’s all just beat the hell out of Microsoft. It unleashed the worms!” Well, that’s what some people think, if the e-mails (uninfected) I got during the past week are any indication.” says Wrastler for CNN Money. “So why doesn’t Microsoft make its software more secure? They’re trying, company officials say. But they also argue that like any other company, there’s only so much Microsoft can do to prevent a crime if a criminal truly wants to commit it.” a Statesman article says. In the meantime, the FBI has identified a teenager as the author of Blaster and plans to arrest him early Friday, a U.S. official confirmed.
Blaming Microsoft for Hacker Attacks
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Then I am sorry you are such a stupid troll. To know with any certainty of the result of any thought experiment requires logic you don’t have. How do I KNOW for certain? Simple, you just dismissed all possibilities that Linux is NOT Windows, the facts that Linux does not ship with open ports and the email programs does not execute attachments without user intervention, etc.
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LOL *REALLY*? Linux doesn’t ship with any open ports? Could you give me your current IP address?
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Wow! Was WinNT 4.0 and Win2K a shock to the system! To browse the Internet I had to be SysAdmin. To do anything besides a bare minimum, I had to be SysAdmin.
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You definately had something configured wrong. NT/2K/2K3 allow all users on the system to browse the web, collect email, etc… unless you take the ability away from them in profile manager.
I run a cluster of Terminal Servers where I work, and I typically have between 25 – 60 users on at a time all doing different things (email, www, database, word, etc). In a properly configured system, users can do all of that, but can’t install programs, plugins for browsers, etc.
I rarely use the administrator account (as it should be) only to do maintenance, or add users.
I don’t blame Yugo for the car falling apart, after all it was the steel that broke, that’s not the fault of the manufacturer, that’s the fault of metal being too weak.
“many of us has got unregistered copy on Windoze and don’t want to be tracked by MS.”
Some of us might even have a legimate copy of Windows and not want to be “tracked” by MS?
Due to the fact that Microsoft has such a huge global monopoly, that is, their software is the most widely used in the world, they have that much a greater responsibility to the world and everyone in it. The smallest flaw is amplified greatly. If they cannot handle this obligation, then they should remove themselves from existence.