[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [day] [month] [year] [list]
Message-ID: <200405111715.i4BHFoJj020429@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
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
Powered by blists - more mailing lists