Re: Adobe investigates sophisticatic corporate networksecurity issue

[Joel Esler <eslerj () gmail com>]

On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 3:13 PM, Dan Kaminsky <dan () doxpara com> wrote:

> There is pretty clear evidence that someone (more than one someone,
> > apparently) opened an attachment they shouldn't have, as described here:
> >
> > http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/archives/00001854.html
> True story:
>
> Back when the ILoveYou virus was going around, I personally heard an
> exasperated admin exclaim, utterly without irony:  "Stupid users, thinking
> people love them."
>
> Listen.  You are Jane in HR.  It is your job to read PDF's from the
> Internet.  Some asshole in IT whines that you should be careful, what the
> hell, IT IS YOUR JOB TO READ PDFS FROM THE INTERNET.  In fact, YOU PROBABLY
> HIRED THAT GUY WHEN HE SENT YOU HIS RESUME AS A PDF -- that is, if he didn't
> send you a doc!
>
> This blaming the victim stuff has to stop.
Dan,

I'll agree with that!

J



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Joel Esler

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