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Computer Security Still Totally Inadequate
Several news sources are running articles detailing the lack of computer security on all platforms. Symantec foretells a dark future for Firefox and Mac users describing their security as a "false paradise". Kernel developer and Red Hat fellow, Allan Cox stated in his recent interview with O'Reilly that "even the best systems today are totally inadequate". He goes on to say that "We are still in a world where an attack like the Slammer worm, combined with a PC BIOS eraser or disk locking tool, could wipe out half the PCs exposed to the Internet in a few hours," Cox said. "In a sense we are fortunate that most attackers want to control and use systems they attack rather than destroy them."
I'll give you this link now, before you suffer a period of enforced downtime at the hands of the inevitable.
-> www.foresightlinux.com
Now - don't say I never do anything nice for anyone!
Sunday you're Thinking Different, Monday you're a huge tool, paying too much and waiting to think like everyone else.
Probably the same thing the people in New Orleans were saying before Katrina...
The fact that it hasn't happened yet is no indication that it won't, and for all you know it could be any day now.
People knew about the danger New Orleans was in, and that it would be blatantly unprotected if a hurricane of great enough force were to hit. Had the people who had the power to do something stepped up and tried to remedy the situation (not passing judgement, just playing out a scenario) the disaster might not have been so terrible.