some thoughts on the Slammer fiasco

From: Sid (gotmail@aol.com)
Date: 01/26/03 

From: "Sid" <gotmail@aol.com>
Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2003 10:47:24 -0600

These are my thoughts regarding some of the moronic posts seen here
recently.

WTF are you running a software firewall on an SQL box for. SQL should stand
alone. And please buy a hardware firewall.

Here is a question someone running Oracle would not ask. "Can (software
firewall of your choice) block port X.

I am an SQL Server DBA and quite frankly ashamed of the low level of
knowledge and lack of willingness to keep up with simple security updates on
the part of the losers here whining about how to keep their servers safe.
Either learn how to play, or get of the field. And people wonder why SQL
Server DBAs make less than a DBA for Oracle, DB2, Sybase, etc.

"But is was sooo easy to install, I clicked next. I'm safe now, right?"
Personally, I hope the IT slump goes on for 5 more years to weed out
wannabes like the people here.

Sid

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