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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?"
The AA - To their members they're the fourth emergency service
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 ?
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.