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Re: Nato warns of strike against cyber attackers


From: Paul Ferguson <fergdawgster () gmail com>
Date: Tue, 8 Jun 2010 21:05:00 -0700

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On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 8:59 PM, JC Dill <jcdill.lists () gmail com> wrote:


I'm still truly amazed that no one has sic'd a lawyer on Microsoft for
creating an "attractive nuisance" - an operating system that is too
easily hacked and used to attack innocent victims, and where others have
to pay to clean up after Microsoft's mess.


Do you honestly believe that if 80% of the world's consumer computers were
*not* MS operating systems, that the majority of computers would still not
be targeted?

Please, be for real -- the criminals go after the entrenched majority. If
it were any other OS, the story would be the same.

- - ferg

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