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| DATE | 2009-02-15 |
| FROM | Ruben Safir
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| SUBJECT | Re: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] virus security is finally getting notice
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> http://blog.linuxtoday.com/blog/2009/02/i-give-up-peopl.html
> carla schroder agrees!
> -K
Oh that is just too good. It's incredable. This is possibly a full
throttle attack on the West's military because of CRAP software.
People are going to die.
Ruben
I Give Up. Windows Is Proof That People Are Too Stupid To Use Computers.
By Carla Schroder on February 12, 2009 10:18 PM | Permalink | Comments
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And too stupid or dishonest to report Microsoft Windows as the defective
disaster that it is. If it were any other type of product it would have
banned from every country in the world long ago. The BBC reports the
latest Windows Conficker worm outbreak in typical "oh no big deal"
fashion, does not identify this as a Windows worm until several
paragraphs into the article, quotes industry security vendors as though
they were actually worth listening to and not useless weasels, and then
blames end users:
"The worm is spreading through low security networks, memory sticks,
and PCs without current security updates...
""Microsoft did a good job of updating people's home computers, but
the virus continues to infect business who have ignored the patch
update...
""Of course, the real problem is that people haven't patched their
software," he added.
Please excuse me while I go kick something. Of COURSE it's the users'
fault. They're still using this most expensive piece of defective
crapware in the entire solar system. But its incurable defects are not
their fault. (We need to give up the notion that such computer users can
be rescued by Linux-- we don't WANT them using Linux. "It is impossible
to make anything foolproof, because fools are ingenious".)
It's WINDOWS Malware, NOT Computer Malware
The US and British military are getting clobbered by WINDOWS malware.
Not computer malware- WINDOWS malware. Dear journalists, do please take
note of this. It is a fact. It is a fact that matters. I know you hate
facts and research, so here it is on a platter. You're welcome. Even
Wired, which should know better, delivered this piece of prime suckage:
"The Defense Department's geeks are spooked by a rapidly spreading
worm crawling across their networks. So they've suspended the use of
so-called thumb drives, CDs, flash media cards, and all other removable
data storage devices from their nets, to try to keep the worm from
multiplying any further"
Not once does this article say "Windows" or "Microsoft". We had great
fun with the Royal Navy putting Windows on submarines mere weeks ago.
But it's not funny anymore:
"The Ministry of Defence confirmed today that it has suffered virus
infections which have shut down "a small number" of MoD systems, most
notably including admin networks aboard Royal Navy warships."
Of course they downplay it, oh no worries, nothing important, run along
now. After all, the nuclear warheads are current with SP4, or something
equally idiotic. And once again nobody utters the forbidden word
"Windows."
Fighter Planes Grounded By Unimportant, Meaningless Infestation
This one is a real knee-slapper:
"French fighter planes were unable to take off after military
computers were infected by a computer virus...The aircraft were unable
to download their flight plans after databases were infected by a
Microsoft virus they had already been warned about several months
beforehand."
And once again the problem is minimized: "It affected exchanges of
information but no information was lost. It was a security problem we
had already simulated." At the least the reporter was bold enough to say
"Microsoft" and "Windows." But sadly, once again, the end users were
blamed.
Microsoft Saddles Up the Posse!
I saved the best story for last. I am NOT making this up! Microsoft
itself, the richest software company ever, famous for having a cash
hoard of tens of billions of dollars, famous for spending billions of
dollars developing Windows and yet still can't code its way out of a
soggy tissue, is offering a reward:
Microsoft Rounds Up Posse to Nab Conficker
"In a worldwide effort to bring down what experts warn may be the
worst malware now facing the Internet, big names from the computer
industry, academia and law enforcement are teaming up to go after the
Conficker worm....Microsoft is coordinating an effort to cut the worm
off at its head -- offering a $250,000 reward for information resulting
in the arrest and conviction of those responsible for launching
Conficker on the Internet."
You must read this article because it is straight out of Bizarro World
News. It goes on to describe this ace worldwide confederacy of pros
leaping into action to fight this worm: security vendors, Homeland
Security, ICANN, Verisign, and universities. Here's the punchline:
"Conficker uses Windows' AutoRun feature -- the one that
automatically opens and plays CD-Roms or movie DVDs when these are
loaded into a computer.
AutoRun "makes the user experience very nice, but disabling AutoRun
is a pain in the neck," Nazario said."
A pain in the neck? Did I read that correctly? A PAIN IN THE NECK??
Wow. I can't decide if I want to yell cuss words, or sit down and weep.
I guess that makes Conficker "a bit of a bother." I guess if they
actually do track down and punish the author of Conficker, the
eleventeen-hundred thousand other Windows worms, Windows Trojan Horses,
Windows viruses, and other Windows malware will all vanish.
Nobody Blames Microsoft
How much of a rocket scientist does it take to figure out "Hey, if I
don't use this piece of crap operating system anymore, I won't have
these problems! Hey, it might even be worth suing the vendor for siccing
this incredible piece of dung on the world, costing tens of billions of
dollars of damage, and endangering public safety!"
But no. After watching this exact same scenario play itself out hundreds
of times in the past 13 years, it is impossible to avoid these
conclusions:
* The press are morons
* The military are morons
* The software security industry is one giant grub-like parasite
* with a vested interest in being ineffective
* Microsoft's customers are morons
* Most everyone is corrupt, and for dirt-cheap
The one ray of hope is that maybe, just maybe, the thousands of Windows
worms will go to war with each other and kill every Windows machine on
earth. Though that would be a short-lived cure, because even after a
Windows holocaust the first thing the survivors are going to do is get
up, dust themselves off, and see if rebooting will bring their systems
back up.
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