Re: last 24 hour port scan log

From: fast (spam@127.0.0.1)
Date: 01/27/03 

From: fast <spam@127.0.0.1>
Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2003 07:21:23 -0800

> Some very general accusations in this newsgroup lately: Some users are
> "morons" because they use something not secure, others are "stupid"
> because they didn't install a Microsoft patch.
>
> Please realize there are a lot of people out there who bought a computer
> because they were told it would help them to do something --- prepare
> taxes or play an online game or manage their bank account, or whatever.
> They were NOT told they would have to check the Microsoft web site every
> three days for the latest patch for security problems that just keep
> coming up, and monitor CERT alerts, and edit their Windows registry to
> get rid of open security holes, and ... and ... .
>
> Those of us interested in computer security spend a lot of time learning
> about these problems, and as a result we know how to deal with them. But
> just because many people out there don't share our interest, it doesn't
> make them stupid and morons.
>
> FW
No, it doesn't "make them stupid and morons" (M$ products do that by
default), it makes them lemmings.
What does make them "stupid and morons" is not reading what they agree to in
EULAs etc. Your analogy screams more of the same tired old drivel, that the
word "I" does not belong next to the phrase "am responsible" for anything
including reading what "I" am agreeing to in a contract. "Poor me, I didn't
know" and the like.
If it is not a person's fault they are complacent, then whose is it? I would
suppose that using your logic it would be their parents, grandparents,
ancestors, or anything else but themselves. After all, it is far easier to
justify errors by blaming anyone or anything else, than to accept that one
has been a fool or an idiot.
Myself, if I was part of the crowd affected by all this I would sure be
feeling like an idiot, a moron, and just plain pretty damned stupid.
I personally have no love at all for anything at all that was ever spawned
by M$. They are a business, a successful and ruthless one. Why people
continue to use their products in the face of overwhelming evidence in the
news world-wide that their personal best interest is not what they are
served is beyond me. Sure sounds pretty idiotic and moronic to me. 

-- 
Microsoft is not the answer, it is the question. The answer is NO!!!

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