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Re: [News] US State Department Pwn3d by Microsoft Flaw; ~90% of E-mail Now Windows Zombie Spewage

  • Subject: Re: [News] US State Department Pwn3d by Microsoft Flaw; ~90% of E-mail Now Windows Zombie Spewage
  • From: "[H]omer" <spam@xxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2007 16:01:37 +0100
  • In-reply-to: <1176988180.205441@angel.amnet.net.au>
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Slated.org
  • References: <1494847.XVkNmm80bh@schestowitz.com> <e24kf4-9ea.ln1@sky.matrix> <1176988180.205441@angel.amnet.net.au>
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Verily I say unto thee, that Ian Hilliard spake thusly:
> [H]omer wrote:
> 
>> Verily I say unto thee, that Roy Schestowitz spake thusly:
>>> State Department got mail and hackers
>>>
>>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>> | A break-in targeting State Department computers worldwide last
>>> | summer occurred after a department employee in Asia opened a
>>> | mysterious e-mail that quietly allowed hackers inside the U.S.
>>> | government's network.
>>> `----
>>>
>>> http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070419/ap_on_hi_te/hackers_state_department
>> Here we go again, yet another major security breach involving the
>> authorities and Windows. They urgently need to introduce legislation
>> making it illegal to use Windows in those kinds of environments.
>>
>> Hell, just make it illegal to use Windows, period.
>>
> 
> You can't go around saying things like that or the Men in Black will pay you
> a visit :)

I can hear the black helicopter's circling.

-- 
K.
http://slated.org

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