RE: [Full-Disclosure] "MS Blast" Win2000 Patch Download

["Schmehl, Paul L" <pauls@utdallas.edu>]

Brad, you're on the wrong list if you're looking for *solutions* to
problems.

Paul Schmehl (pauls@utdallas.edu)
Adjunct Information Security Officer
The University of Texas at Dallas
AVIEN Founding Member
http://www.utdallas.edu/~pauls/

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brad Bemis [mailto:Brad.Bemis@airborne.com] 
> Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2003 11:22 AM
> To: Ed Carp; Anjan Dave; full-disclosure@lists.netsys.com
> Subject: RE: [Full-Disclosure] "MS Blast" Win2000 Patch Download
>
> Personally I am getting tired of people making these kinds of 
> comments.  It is obvious that these people have never had 
> responsibility for a large-scale, multi-national enterprise 
> environment that touches so many different organizations 
> world-wide that it is nearly impossible to account for every 
> single Internet access point (not to mention remote access 
> and mobile computers).  While it may be true that blocking 
> port 135 at the firewall would work in an ideal environment, 
> very few of us that deal with security matters in the real 
> world have anything that even begins to approach an ideal 
> environment.  We need to be discussing real solutions to real 
> problems, not verbalizing a continued ignorance of reality.  Sorry for
> the rant, but this topic is getting old quickly!  
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