full-disclosure - aside: worm vs. worm?

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From: tzu at plepstudios.com (akbara)
Subject: aside:  worm vs. worm?

I'm sure they have plenty of bandwidth to spare, yes extra bandwidth costs
more money..
but the company does make over a billion dollars a month, and has 49 billion
in cash reserve.



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Darren Reed" <avalon@...igula.anu.edu.au>
To: "Andrew J Homan" <homa0016@....edu>
Cc: <full-disclosure@...ts.netsys.com>
Sent: Tuesday, August 12, 2003 1:13 AM
Subject: Re: [Full-Disclosure] aside: worm vs. worm?


> In some mail from Andrew J Homan, sie said:
> >
> > It seems that between the time dcom.c first starting popping up around
the
> > internet and today, there was ample time for someone to write and
release a
> > worm designed to patch infected systems and remove any sign of itself.
> > Given that on the 16th of this month windowsupdate.com will be DDOSed,
does
> > anyone else see this as an opportunity for a war of worms with
> > windowsupdate.com at stake?  Would anyone consider releasing a patching
> > worm on their own network if they knew it wouldn't spread to the rest of
> > the internet or is there a downside to this notion which I'm not
realizing?
>
> You know, if the DDoS was targetted at someone innocent, I might be
> more sympathetic towards the problem of a web site being DDoS'd.
>
> But it's Microsoft's own web site that is being targeted and it is
> through their own bug that it is being made possible.  As much as
> they would like to point the finger at others for making the code
> available to do it, if their software didn't have the bug, it would
> not be possible it all.  Hrm, I don't really want to start _THAT_
> discussion again, but I don't think you will find much, if any,
> sympathy for Microsoft being targetted by this worm.  They're a
> large, rich, monopoly of a company.  Do they really deserve any
> nice sympathy at all ?  I suspect I'm not alone in these feelings.
>
> Darren
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