Re: Cryptogram Comment

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Date: 08/16/04

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Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2004 00:02:06 -0400

John Savard wrote:
> 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.
>

until someone pirates the patches.

or uses a free firewall.

or uses a pirated firewall.

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