full-disclosure - Windoze almost managed to 200x repeat 9/11

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From: bkfsec at sdf.lonestar.org (Barry Fitzgerald)
Subject: Windoze almost managed to 200x repeat 9/11

ASB wrote:

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>Where issues like this relate to the OS is in the fact that the OS
>itself shouldn't be brought down by a poorly designed app.
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>And where in that article did you read that the OS was brought down by
>a poorly designed app?
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I didn't... I was reponding to a point that was made about applications 
being reponsible for system failures.

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>>Was it MS Windows that actually held the code that brought the system down?
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>The article was pretty clear:
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>How you managed to read "OS failure" into this is rather astounding...
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How you manage to get up in the morning is rather astounding.

Next time, please read the thread in context.

Also, if you think that that's a detailed assessment of the problem, 
you're not too bright.

So try and think a little harder next time, and not be so abbrassive.  
You may be having a bad day (most likely due to your poor attitude) but 
don't take your own misunderstanding out on others, mmkay?

             -Barry