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Computer Virus Fells Russian Stock Exchange
azav wrote to mention the New Scientist story detailing the computer virus that brought down the Russian Stock Exchange. From the article: "As the world waited for one computer virus to strike on Friday, another wriggled its way into the Russian stock exchange and knocked it offline. Computer experts had warned that 3 February could bring gloom for many as a computer virus called Nyxem was scheduled to start deleting files on machines it had infected."
i know there will be people saying "oh my, running windows, sucks to be you" but if you look past the trollishness of these posts they actually have a point in this case. running windows as anything mission critical is stupid, it's a desktop system at heart, and an unstable one at that. running the bloody stock exchange on it is suicidal. theres always some dick who opens that dodgy email, so if your net is that important run the mission critical servers at least on some flavour of unix
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Did you learn nothing from the cold war?1 9247
http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/03/02/07
M$ is the Trojan horse, you add it to your systems and anyone can just walk in.
Domestic spying is now "Benign Information Gathering"
I'm not defending Microsoft, I'm merely saying that this kind of behaviour is childish, stupid and unproductive.
If you want to attack Microsoft, do it while still respecting what shall be respected (the name of the company), attack them on their security record, on their monopolistic behaviour, on their lobbying methods, on the personality or missteps of their leaders, that's fair game, and that's sometimes productive and at least somewhat interresting.
Oh, and everyone deserves to be defended btw, no matter who one is or what one did, one deserves a fair trial.
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