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Re: So ze Q-bomb wuz a dud? :)
From: "Paul M. Moriarty" <pmm () igtc com>
Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2009 10:50:09 -0700
On Apr 1, 2009, at 9:46 AM, Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu wrote:
On Wed, 01 Apr 2009 05:27:59 EDT, Kevin McAleavey said:I haven't seen much of anything and I'm in my 13th hour of sitting here, waiting for what Marvin the Martian once said, "Where's the Kaboom? There was supposed to be an earth shattering kaboom!"As I said - oh-dark-thirty sometime in the future. A metric shitload of the 20M compromised systems will probably get patched due to the hysteria. Say 75%.
On the enterprise side, that may be true. I expect the number that got patched as a result of the publicity to be a much smaller percentage on the consumer side, say 20%. And, I'm further willing to bet that consumer machines make up at least 75% of the estimated 20M machines. So there will still be > 13M compromised boxes post-hype. - Paul - _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
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