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From: chows at ozemail.com.au (Gregh)
Subject: Anti-MS drivel

----- Original Message -----
From: "Tobias Weisserth" <tobias@...sserth.de>
To: "Mary Landesman" <mlande@...lsouth.net>
Cc: <full-disclosure@...ts.netsys.com>
Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2004 4:42 AM
Subject: Re: [Full-Disclosure] Anti-MS drivel

> Hi Mary,
>
> Am Di, den 20.01.2004 schrieb Mary Landesman um 18:12:
> > On  January 20, 2004 11:55 AM, "Tobias Weisserth" claimed:
> >
> > > And the blame goes on MS for this. Nobody else.
> >
> > There is absolutely nothing I can do to secure my home from break-in.
>
> You could close the doors, get a better lock, not lose your keys on
> purpose, never leave without the door being locked... and so on. There
> is VERY much you can do to REDUCE the risk of being a victim.
>

Doesnt work. In Australia, thieves have been known to take tiles off the
roof to get in, peel back tin roofs, remove fibro wall panels or just smash
them, saw through wooden house walls, smash the glass out of windows etc.

In the same way as that, your computer today, may be as secure as anyone can
make it, on the web and then tomorrow, someone finds another way in. Hell,
MS may be the most attacked OS in the world for sure (it is the most used
one so no surprise, there) but every other OS has had weaknesses that can be
exploited.

Greg.