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Sasser Worm Takes Down UK's Coastguard
jonman_d writes "The Sasser worm has recently disabled the computer systems of Britain's Coastguard. Naturally, this event raises even more doubts over the reliability of Microsoft software in critical systems. Moreover, it raises questions of responsibility: if the worm writer is caught, can he be held at least partially responsible for any deaths that occured during this outage?"
Possessing a long maritime tradition, here in the UK we could offer the writers a selection punishments [1] Keel Hauling from stem to stern [2] Flogging with a cat-o'-9 tails [3] Hanging (if the worm caused a fire in a naval dockyard) [4] Run the Gauntlet [5] Picking okum
You don't need a lab to make mud.
The AA - To their members they're the fourth emergency service
That's the Democrat response. The Republican response is to capture the kid and put him Abu Ghraib prison camp and sodomize the bastard, while taking pictures which appropriately belong on goatse.cx. Then, to go after the house builder, find out what country s/he's from, and then start fingerprinting all its citizens, while also bombing it to dust, all in the name of democracy and freedom, while all the time wondering "Why do they hate us so much?"
doesn't everything? seems to me that it get stretched more than a rubber band.
Questioning the intent of the Patriot Act falls under section 14 of the Patriot Act. I hope you don't have anything to hide terrorist, because the FBI are on their way.
So how do you remotely administer one of these machines ? Telekinesis ?
and some clause in the Patriot Act doesn't everything?
seems to me that it get stretched more than a rubber band.
Why do you hate freedom?
Speak truth to power.
No, It just works. The ports open themselves automatically when they sense that another host wants to connect. :)
Let's get drunk and delete production data!
on the other side, through the past 7 years, the netware 4.X server hidden in the closet and forgotten until 2 years ago has ran and not had ONE problem in that entire time. no viruses, no hacks, no break ins no crashes no nothing but doing it's job.
I also like to mention it at every IT meeting when the windows guys are scrambling about the latest virus threat.
Do not look at laser with remaining good eye.
Somebody needs their ass kicked over this one. Hopefully nobody dies as a result.
Dude, that would have to be one hell of an ass-kicking...
You have a bus, except the bus has unlocked windows, but all the seats have safety belts. There's a driver at the front of the bus with a credit card, but all the passengers are holding tickets. Made of paper. Then it rains. Meanwhile there's a guy on the street corner trying to sell chickens, who gets on the bus. Except the bus is full. So he opens one of the windows, and his bag, which has chickens in it (remember, he sells chickens) falls off his shoulder because he wasn't using a strong enough strap. Meanwhile because the window's open, rain starts getting into the bus, making several of the passengers, and their tickets, wet. As a result, that makes the writing on them illegable and they get thrown off the bus, because the bus driver thinks they're going to Basingstoke when they're actually going to Boston, MA, which is where the bus goes. What the guy selling the chickens doesn't know is that the people who get thrown off the bus end up with the chickens.
Now that's an analogy.
You are not alone. This is not normal. None of this is normal.
You don't, if you want to change the configuration you just pick it up, throw it out and buy a new one with the service enabled. Couldn't be more simple.