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HomeSec Warns Again About Microsoft's Insecurity
cbrandtbuffalo writes "The Department of Homeland Security has posted this advisory about an impending attack on MS systems. This RPC attack has already been seen in some localized systems, but may spread as unpatched computers are exploited. Some of the national news like CNN are running stories too."
2 years / millions of dollars and the Home Land Security people tell me that people like to attack Microsoft Products.
I'm glad I pay all those taxs!
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Could we not go around referring to The Department of Homeland Security as HomeSec? The last thing we need is /. popularizing a cool sounding name for this behemoth.
If we need to refer to it then use the initial letters of its name... DoHs.
Somehow appropriate when they put out warnings like the last one.
John.
Microsoft is now officially a threat to Homeland Security. Maybe George should drop some bombs on Redmond! We know where they are and they keep putting out a product that threatens our security. Oh wait, the government saw fit to give them a slap on the wrist and turn around and contracted even more unsafe software from them. They'll undoubtedly be mentioned in future hindsight publications from congress but on blanked out pages for national security reasons. That's what we do for "friends".
Ugh.
Wilersh
On the DHS alert color code, blue means "guarded", just one notch lower than the alert level the USA have been living in for the last few months (with occasional orange flares). Should this color be reconsidered in sight of the well known Blue Screen of Death?
"Which port is it that you need to block?"
To make windows secure?
All of them.
Most government departments actually are designed to achieve the opposite of their names. For example, the "Department of Homeland Security" is in fact designed to control the level of insecurity that people feel. Likewise, the ministry of defence is really about offence, and in 1984 the Ministry of Information is about disinformation and so on.
In the book, the language was controlled to the point of creating new terms like IngSoc, MiniPax (ministry of peace, really designed to perpetuate war), and Double-plus good.
The whole point here is to justify the actions of the government. Because it becomes alot easier to justify removing civil rights when there is the perceived threat of some common enemy.
-- the only thing we have to fear is really scary things
This suggests a new marketing slogan:
"If you don't upgrade to Windows XP, then the terrorists have already won!"
So it can be saved and get into heaven. Oh, you mean world.
Do not touch -Willie
To make your computer truely secure, follow these simple steps:
Should be truely secure... But for the overtly paranoid, concider dropping the planet into your local black hole. Please note that there may be information leakage as any entropy is represented on the black hole's event horizon.
Not practical... But fun.
-- The universe began. Life started on a billion worlds...
-- Except on one where stupidity was there first.