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From: Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu (Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu) Subject: Calcuating Loss On Tue, 11 May 2004 16:30:46 BST, Jos Osborne <Jos@...temi.co.uk> said: > >How about when Micro$oft releases a bundled patch (cough cough MS04-011) to > >fix several bugs and security holes (supposedly to help "minimize loss" from > >these bugs and worms) only to find out that the patch itself has broken just > >as many services as it fixed, taking down one's server for a few hours, > >causing yet... more loss! ;-) > > Grrrr - that little pressie from M$ cost us a whole morning... "You can chalk up a morning's worth of semi-scheduled losses now, or chalk up even more losses when you have to install patches *after* cleaning the worm off". "You can pay me $500, or you can pay the hospital $4,000 to have your kneecaps fixed". Draw your own conclusions about any family resemblance between those two statements. :) -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 226 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/attachments/20040511/dcba996b/attachment.bin
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