Code Red Reporting That Doesn't Suck

marvin tph writes "The results are in: Time.com is the first mainstream news source to write an intelligent article on story Code Red. With all the big guys telling people that we've only seen the eye of the storm its nice to see someone get it right."

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Re:Has anybody thought about this?

[martyb]

There are still about 100.000 vulnerable (and by now... infected) machines out there.

As of the time of my posting this, there are about 130,000 infected hosts. Go to:

http://www.caida.org/dynamic/analysis/security/cod e-red/index.html

to see the "Dynamic Graphs of Code Red Worm" page from CAIDA (Cooperative Association of Internet Data Analysis).

For everyone who didn't pay attention in History

[Markvs]

...which is probably most Americans...

Stolen from the article:
"For Microsoft, this was the kind of publicity you just can't buy. Not only did Redmond get to share a dais with the Justice Department --which is rather like Stalin vowing eternal friendship with Roosevelt to counter the Nazi menace -- but they also had their name inextricably linked with the well-being of the Internet itself."

Which is *exactly* what it is, except that in this case there isn't any Nazi menace to stand up to. My bet is that this will be seen as a way to soften the DOJ/Microsoft schism in the public's eye and make all those pesky state lawsuits go away that much quicker.

History is *filled* with bait-n-switches like this, which most people pick up on about as frequently as they do retail prices going up two weeks before a big sale. Study the past. Without it, you'll never see the future.