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Re: What do you want your ISP to block today?
From: "Matthew S. Hallacy" <poptix () techmonkeys org>
Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2003 00:04:51 -0500
On Sat, Aug 30, 2003 at 02:53:46PM -0400, Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu wrote:
This, in fact, is the single biggest thorn in our side at the moment. It's hard to adopt a pious "patch your broken box" attitude when the user can't get it patched without getting 0wned first...
This is where you start forcing users through a captive portal to the update site of their vendor, I think they'll get the idea when every site they try to bring up turns out to be windowsupdate.microsoft.com [snip]
Given the Lion worm that hit Linux boxes, and the fact there's apparently a known remote-root (since fixed) for Apple's OSX, what operating systems would you consider "acceptable"?
Anything that's not currently infected, and is patched to the current 'safe' level. -- Matthew S. Hallacy FUBAR, LART, BOFH Certified http://www.poptix.net GPG public key 0x01938203
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- Re: What do you want your ISP to block today? Valdis . Kletnieks (Aug 29)
- Re: What do you want your ISP to block today? Rob Thomas (Aug 29)
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- Re: What do you want your ISP to block today? Rob Thomas (Aug 29)
- Re: What do you want your ISP to block today? Matthew S. Hallacy (Aug 29)
- Re: What do you want your ISP to block today? Joe Abley (Aug 30)
- Re: What do you want your ISP to block today? Valdis . Kletnieks (Aug 30)
- Re: What do you want your ISP to block today? Ray Wong (Aug 30)
- Re: What do you want your ISP to block today? Joe Abley (Aug 30)
- Re: What do you want your ISP to block today? Matthew S. Hallacy (Aug 30)
- Re: What do you want your ISP to block today? Owen DeLong (Aug 30)
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- Re: What do you want your ISP to block today? Matthew S. Hallacy (Aug 30)
- Re: What do you want your ISP to block today? Iljitsch van Beijnum (Aug 29)
- Re: What do you want your ISP to block today? Christopher L. Morrow (Aug 29)
- Re: What do you want your ISP to block today? Rob Thomas (Aug 30)
- Re: What do you want your ISP to block today? Ray Wong (Aug 30)
- Re: What do you want your ISP to block today? Iljitsch van Beijnum (Aug 30)
- Re: What do you want your ISP to block today? Ray (Aug 30)
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