Re: Anti-MS drivel

[Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu]

On Tue, 20 Jan 2004 14:49:52 EST, Justin Bajko <jbajko () CTMSINC com>  said:

> What would you say to someone if you were a home builder and the buyer of a
> home you built a year ago had their lawyers call you and threaten to sue you
> because their house got broken into? You installed locks on the doors and
> you installed latches on all the windows, but the person who bought the
> house never took the time to bother out how they worked, thus they always
> left their house unlocked, and eventually, it bit them in the ass when they
> came home to a house full of nothing.

Well.. this is a broken analogy.  The average home builder doesn't build a
door only visible from across the street and conceal the lock as one of the
knobs on the stove....

Oh, yeah.. *SURE* you can disable all those open ports.  But why would
Joe Sixpack even *suspect* that he has ports open, even assuming that he
understands what a port *IS*?

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