Re: Message from my ISP

From: Damian Menscher (menscher+security@uiuc.edu)
Date: 01/25/03 

From: Damian Menscher <menscher+security@uiuc.edu>
Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2003 19:30:24 GMT

Melissa <Melissa@upalliance.orgddd> wrote:
>> Large portions of the Internet are suffering from a massive
>> denial-of-service type attack. It appears to be a worm,
>> attacking and infecting Microsoft SQL server.

> I wonder if the Iraqis are behind this kind of thing.

Highly unlikely.

> I met a computer security guy a few years ago, who told me that in the
> event of a war against the U.S.A., our own government had computer worms
> that could go right through any virus software and fry our hard drives, so
> they wouldn't fall into enemy hands.

Seems more useful to fry *their* hard drives, not *ours*.

> Can someone tell us more about that kind of thing?

Anyone who knows most certainly can't say.

> Interested in companionship in the west Denver area, based on common
> interests - Libertarian - Objectivist - Chess - Martial arts - Shooting -

Objectivists amuse me. It's the only branch of philosophy (that I
know of) that can be explicitly *proven* wrong by direct experiment.
Look up "Bell's Inequality" to see how.

Damian Menscher 

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