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Faust

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« Reply #15 on: 16 September 2003, 11:09 »
If I go to a SARS infected country and take no precautions and then leave and go to Europe coughing and spluttering I should be sued.  And viruses ARE a threat to life now.  Given that a safety monitoring Windows machine in a Nuclear Power Station got taken down by Blaster I think it's serious.  And what of a machine in a hospital?  There is quite real danger should a database system keeping track of medical records and or medicine handed out is taken down.
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« Reply #16 on: 16 September 2003, 14:51 »
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Good point. But what makes you think that he will remain harmless? With shit like the Patriot Act, I wouldn't be surprised if that 'middle class' journalist gets his wish, whether the Bush regime actually hear him or not.



No I agree with you; I don't think the author of that article is harmless. But I think when he said "stupid people" he was probably referring to "poor people".
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« Reply #17 on: 16 September 2003, 21:05 »
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Originally posted by Faust:
If I go to a SARS infected country and take no precautions and then leave and go to Europe coughing and spluttering I should be sued.  And viruses ARE a threat to life now.  Given that a safety monitoring Windows machine in a Nuclear Power Station got taken down by Blaster I think it's serious.  And what of a machine in a hospital?  There is quite real danger should a database system keeping track of medical records and or medicine handed out is taken down.


Real virouses and computer ones are two different things.  For one something like SARS is very political in nature.  SARS after all is the flu.  It really isn't that threatening, but with the bush regime, it looked like the end of the worl.  Then again when we talk about the bush regime.  Then we do talk about things that can harm the world indefinatly.

I agree that alot of sensitive information is passed through computers these days, thats why it is nessessary to have good tools for the job.  

Scarifcing safty over economy is the soul reason why the twin towers came down, likewise M$ poor products is the same reason a nucler plant faild.  M$ Is responsible for those things.  Not the virous writers.  If someone is running such mission critical jobs then they should have gone with OpenBSD not someting that is garantee to fail.
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