[KULUA] Nightline (fwd)

From: John Wilson <wilson_at_dbit.dbit.com>
Date: Fri May 5 14:59:12 2000

On Fri, May 05, 2000 at 06:57:36PM -0600, Gary Hildebrand wrote:
> *** Beginning of forwarded message ***
[...]
> It struck me as odd that they were trying to "educate" people about how to
> be safe without ever mentioning the fact that nearly all of the nasty
> email viruses are confined to Microsoft products.

One of the "news" websites (www.abcnews.com maybe?) had a nice list of
"things you can do to protect yourself from email viruses", and I thought
it was very interesting that "avoid M$ products!!!" wasn't on the list.

It's too bad the net has turned into such an appliance. In the old days,
each site often implemented their own TCP/IP stack and SMTP/FTP/etc. servers
from scratch, so even if they had security flaws they weren't well-known.
Returning to that might have some advantages ... I know someone who munged
in a fake version banner in his wu.ftpd just so the crackers would be more
likely to leave him alone, worth a shot!

John Wilson
D Bit
Received on Fri May 05 2000 - 14:59:12 BST