Re: controversial paper

From: Mxsmanic (mxsmanic_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 09/27/03 

Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2003 14:36:48 +0200

Tom St Denis writes:

> Too f'ing bad. That's the job of a sysadmin. The end users don't apply
> patches or setup firewalls. The sysadmin does.

Sysadmins who are very insistent about security are usually sent on
their way. 

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