Re: Cryptogram Comment

From: John Savard (jsavard_at_excxn.aNOSPAMb.cdn.invalid)
Date: 08/16/04 

Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2004 02:11:19 GMT

On Sat, 14 Aug 2004 22:53:51 -0400, Undisclosed <nomail@dontbeaweaselspammer.com>
wrote, in part:

>this is not going to hurt them financially in the slightest.

Without getting into the debate as a whole, *if* it were the case that one could
not connect an unpatched machine to the Internet for five minutes before it
crashed from either Blaster or Sasser, *then* an unpatchable Windows XP
installation would be useless for connecting to the Internet. Presumably, this
might discourage some piracy.

John Savard
http://home.ecn.ab.ca/~jsavard/index.html

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