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From: measl at mfn.org (J.A. Terranson)
Subject: Reuters: Microsoft to give holes info to Uncle
	Sam first - responsible vendor notification may not be a good idea any
	more...

On Sun, 13 Mar 2005, Devdas Bhagat wrote:

> My PoV is that the infrastructure that I depend on is being impacted by
> J.R. User in the US, Korea and Japan because of the flood of crap that
> comes from their infected Windows systems to mine. Hint: There is
> network infrastructure outside the US.

Hint: Read what I wrote.  You are the only maintaining the idea that this
is a US centric thread.

> Regardless of what you think critical infrastructure is, the US
> government's PCs are /not/ critical infrastructure.

*ALL* government pc's (whether US gov, UK gov, Martian gov., whatever) are
critical infrastructure bozo.

Whther you like it or not, governments run this planet, and all of our
lives are implicitly run by goverment - you tax returns, your power
delivery, your kids schooling, the allocation of police and fire resources
- all of this is run by government.

> Devdas Bhagat

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