RE: 26 March 1999: Happy Birthday. Melissa

["William Lefkovics" <william () emailonastick com>]

No arguments here.

For the record, I don't believe virus writing (in some cases very closely
related to administrative scripting) should be a crime at all.  
Certainly maliciously and knowingly creating downtime for businesses should
carry a price.

And by your definition, there were lots of people in the wrong job!


-----Original Message-----
From: funsec-bounces () linuxbox org [mailto:funsec-bounces () linuxbox org] On
Behalf Of Nick FitzGerald
Sent: Sunday, March 26, 2006 3:44 PM
To: funsec () linuxbox org
Subject: RE: [funsec] 26 March 1999: Happy Birthday. Melissa

William Lefkovics wrote:

I agree with Larry's comments, but will add...

> He should be honoured for helping expose weaknesses in a certain 
> appliction/os combination.

Lessee...

So, folk didn't "learn" from W97M/Brenda and W97M/ColdApe that the tight
integration between Office and related applications and an all- powerful
system-wide scripting language in poorly configured and secured systems were
a recipe for disaster?

I guess, in that case, we should be pleased for the "education" he afforded
all those chronically ignorant system admins who failed to learn from those
more subtle/less obvious earlier "lessons".

Or should we ask why so many "mission critical" systems were spec'ed to run
such crappy codebases in such badly configured and secured ways?

Heck no -- corporate sys-admins (or the corporate-structural constraints
they work under) are clearly so stupid they need a good solid kick in the
balls to get any vaguely important point across to them...

Sorry, but if you were a sys-admin and Melissa taught you something
important about your IT infrastructure, you were in the wrong job!


Regards,

Nick FitzGerald

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