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When Will The Next Slammer Strike?
scubacuda writes "Business Week has an article on how the Slammer worm demonstrates just 'how vulnerable the Internet remains': MS's own DBs were affected, telephone/ATM/etc were knocked out, and if the worm had occurred only 48 hours later (preventing investor's trading, 911 calls, banking services), there could have been a 'virtual Net shutdown.' Vincent Weafer, director of the computer-security outfit Symantec's Anti-Virus Response Center (SARC), says that the likelihood that a Slammer-style worm will hit at a more vulnerable moment is high."
The same MS that didn't apply their *own* patches ?!?
Hmmm...
Too many lazy admins out there so people should counter the bad worms with good worms. Yep its not that ethical at all but it has got to be better than crossing your fingers.
When is the next Microsoft product being released?
alias uptime="echo '5:33pm up 22342352324 days, 6:28, 2124315623 users, load average: 2432.40, 12312.31, 123123.19'"
When pogs become the next big thing. Duh.
What the hell, I got karma to burn. :)
... thank you, Office Space
Not just let's throw him in the Slammer. Let's throw him in Federal Pound-Me-In-The-Ass prison [*] with a cellmate who's affectionately known as... the Slammer.
"So, Mr. Worm Writer, are you enjoying your cellmate's one-eyed worm?"
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Wait until mid-century, when nanotech is used everywhere, and hardware viruses and worms start appearing. Let's just hope that, by then, micro$oft will have been swept into the dustbin of history and nanotech will be open source...
Cancelling a meeting decreases your productivity? Whoa.
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