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Also, in an unexpected turn of events, the drones could be used to overcome Madagascar's near-perfect border security in Pandemic 2 (Flash Content) and finally wipe out Earths entire population.

See here: http://www.crazymonkeygames.com/Pandemic-2.html a game where you can create your own disease and see how it spreads.

Well, it did occur to Ron Paul. On the other hand, that's probably just a side effect of his general policy of Shut Down Everything.

Works well for Madagascar.

Looks like I'm moving to Madagascar.

A link to Pandemic 2 the game.
http://www.crazymonkeygames.com/Pandemic-2.html
Celebrate the promotion of H1N1 to Pandemic status by trying to wipe out the human race. Fun for the whole family.

I'm not sure where you are coming from here, so I will just post a link to it:

http://www.crazymonkeygames.com/Pandemic-2.html

Beat me to it. This is a reference to the game Pandemic 2 for those who don't get it. I've been so frustrated by Madagascar that I actually name my diseases after it. Madagascan Insanity Pox is one of the few that actually made it.

http://www.crazymonkeygames.com/fullscreen.php?game=Pandemic-2

I feel a need to expound on this "no open ports" issue. Go ahead and ignore my ravings if you like.

Many a postdoc will be glad to show you his bulletproof method for running a service that can't be exploited. Signed code, insane encryption, public keys... It's all bullshit, and your marketing department knows this because they've got trolls on every board posting that "any software can be exploited - Linux and Mac OS-X aren't because they're not popular."

Look. This isn't rocket science. If you have an exposed service it will eventually be exploited. Even that Conficker jerk will get pwned in time, and his app only runs signed code. What's funny is that his services are more secure than your database connector, the second and third botnet owners are likely to compromise his network before you are, and none of the authors are over 30 years old. Any service that's available on the network can be exploited. You can't avoid it. What you can do is mitigate it to the point where someone had to deliberately open a service to the outside world to be vulnerable. Road Warriors ensure that some evil node will be on your network eventually. Therefore desktops must not have open ports by default, all servers must use secure authentication and report intrusion attempts. Even Intranet servers must be prepared for distributed slow password hacking. Expect attack and inspect what you expect. There is no defensive move that can't be countered except "don't be there when the attack happens." So let me quote President Madagascar: "Shut. Down. Everything!" This is an indirect reference to an online game called Pandemic 2.

Oh, and on a separate note, my humor may have been too subtle and for that I apologize. I make that mistake a lot. I don't work for Limited Brands. That was a Meme reference to your arrogance.

As long as I'm wasting my time, I might as well throw out some more not-in-your-department things: Exchange 2007 datastores. You guys do know that a gmail box is already 7GB, right? WTF are you thinking? This is an "enterprise" email solution? Oh, yeah: Sharepoint. Nuke it from orbit. Kill it with fire. That thing is heinous. The first time I saw it in the enterprise I right-clicked it closed in the task bar and waited two weeks to see if security would walk me out for accidentally clicking on an internal communication. When that didn't happen I realized they were serious. You might as well open up an ftp server on your root directory. Jeebus WTH is going on with Sharepoint? Is it supposed to be the enterprise web version of BearShare?

Again, this post is in the public domain. All rights reversed.

* whoosh *

I've been playing Pandemic 2 all night and this is really freaking me out.

I think I'm moving to Madagascar...

Nuh-uh. The port is closed.

I've been playing Pandemic 2 all night and this is really freaking me out.

I think I'm moving to Madagascar...

"This gives me a great reason not to install flash. What good features did it have anyway?"

www.CrazyMonkeyGames.com
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