Re: Santa Fe city government computers knocked out by worm

[Alex Yuriev <alex () yuriev com>]

> > No explaination why Sante Fe officials had not patched the city's
> > computers in the three months since Microsoft announced the vulnerability
> > and released the software updates.  Nor why Sante Fe didn't have up to
> > date anti-virus programs running on its computers.
>
> Nor why they were using such rubbish software for a mission-
> critical system.
Because for people outside our little industry the software is a tool to get
a JOB done, not the job itself.

Alex