On Mon, 27 Nov 2006 17:16:31 EST, Rick said: > > On Mon, 27 Nov 2006, Valdis.Kletnieks@xxxxxx wrote: > > > You would have us believe that the guy is clued enough to run a "closed > > lab" without screwing up (and there's *lots* of ways to screw up, starting > > with forgetting to wipe the drives afterwards, forgetting to disable a > > wireless card, forgetting to not plug any of the boxes into the normal net, > > forgetting to...). > > so when you go to mcdonalds and hand over your $5 for your MCbig meal, do > you consider the repercussions of supporting an industry which pays low > wages, is under-staffed, and promotes world-hunger by using enough grain > to feed a continent, etc...? WTF does that have to do with the topic? Unless you want to make the point that often, the McDonald's staff fails to use a level of food-preparation hygiene that matches the computer-security hygiene requirements to work with known malware? The average McDonald's doesn't have biohazard signs (whether they should is a different rant) - and even the average doctor's office that *does* have biohazard signs for used hypodermic needles and the like usually has special training/procedures for dealing with the stuff. And labs that do active research on biohazards have even stricter protocols. (Make note, there *have* been screw-ups in the protocols at places that handle stuff like Ebola and smallpox - Preston's "The Hot Zone" has a nice story of a dead monkey with nothing but a plastic garbage bag keeping the nasties in, and a few years ago, there was a small to-do in one of the labs in England that had some smallpox...) >> And yet he's not clued enough to know how to find a copy of Sasser by >> himself. > so what? > do *you* know where to find a copy? Yes. > did you always? Yes. > have you always been able to configure a network to talk via EIGRP? No, because when I first got on the net, RFC1058 was still 4 years in the future. So it wasn't "always" possible, because the option didn't always exist. > > There are a lot of people who are of the opinion that "if you have to ask > > where to find a copy of Sasser, you're not clued enough to be trusted with > > a copy". > > perhaps the next time you need a doctor, the one you find will laugh at > you with the same sense of elitism you demonstrate. Did I say I was one of the lot of people? Did you notice that I was replying *in the context of KF's comments* saying "It's cool because it's in a closed lab?"
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