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Re: [News] US Military Uses Windows, Gets Hijacked, Spews Out SPAM

  • Subject: Re: [News] US Military Uses Windows, Gets Hijacked, Spews Out SPAM
  • From: "[H]omer" <spam@xxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2007 01:02:30 +0100
  • In-reply-to: <1376977.g5oSqRuUPT@schestowitz.com>
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Slated.org
  • References: <1376977.g5oSqRuUPT@schestowitz.com>
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Verily I say unto thee, that Roy Schestowitz spake thusly:
> Zombies infiltrate US military networks
> 
> ,----[ Quote ]
> | Support Intelligence, the firm whose research on honeynets revealed that 
> | the networks of at least 28 Fortune 1000 companies contained 
> | malware-infected spam-spewing PCs, has found evidence of bots running 
> | behind military networks.
> `----
> 
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/04/16/military_botnet/

Call General "I'm [Red Hat's] largest customer" Justice, and tell him to
deploy a salvo of distros immediately!

But seriously, with so much Linux deployed throughout the U.S. military,
and these constant security epidemics with Windows, why is there
*anyone* left still deploying Windows in the U.S. military?

> This is not just embarrassing. It's dangerous. A couple of weeks ago,
> credit/debit card details of 43 million people got stolen by intruders, in a
> single incident. And here you have the military, potentially in the hands of
> people in militant nations.

And financial institutions should also know better. Using Windows for
ATMs, credit card transactions, financial databases, or any other
sensitive data, is pure insanity. Are they mad, or just stupid?

-- 
K.
http://slated.org

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| I found [Vista] to be a dangerously unstable operating system,
| which has caused me to lose data ... unfortunately this product
| is unfit for any user. - [H]ardOCP, <http://tinyurl.com/3bpfs2>
`----

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 01:01:16 up 5 days,  9:13,  2 users,  load average: 0.30, 0.30, 0.25

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