full-disclosure - Re: Sasser or other nasty worm needed

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Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.64.0611271649530.20603@orchard.wccnet.org>
Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2006 17:16:31 -0500 (EST)
From: Rick <optik@...net.org>
To: Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu
Cc: full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk
Subject: Re: Sasser or other nasty worm needed

On Mon, 27 Nov 2006, Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu wrote:

> You would have us believe that the guy is clued enough to run a "closed
> lab" without screwing up (and there's *lots* of ways to screw up, starting
> with forgetting to wipe the drives afterwards, forgetting to disable a
> wireless card, forgetting to not plug any of the boxes into the normal net,
> forgetting to...).

so when you go to mcdonalds and hand over your $5 for your MCbig meal, do 
you consider the repercussions of supporting an industry which pays low 
wages, is under-staffed, and promotes world-hunger by using enough grain 
to feed a continent, etc...?

> And yet he's not clued enough to know how to find a copy of Sasser by 
> himself.

so what?
do *you* know where to find a copy?
did you always?
have you always been able to configure a network to talk via EIGRP?

> There are a lot of people who are of the opinion that "if you have to ask
> where to find a copy of Sasser, you're not clued enough to be trusted with
> a copy".

perhaps the next time you need a doctor, the one you find will laugh at 
you with the same sense of elitism you demonstrate.

Rick

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