Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain...and most fools do.
- Benjamin Franklin

i'm in gryffindor!

Wednesday, January 29, 2003

BWA-HA-HA-HA-HA!!
or, Stupid Fucking Microsoft
The frantic message came from the corporation's information technology workers: "HELP NEEDED: If you have servers that are nonessential, please shut down."

The computer system was under attack by a rogue program called SQL Slammer, which affected servers running Microsoft software that had not been updated with a patch — issued months ago — to fix the vulnerability. [...]

But this wasn't happening at just any company. It was occurring at Microsoft itself.

Perhaps you kids might enjoy reading the rest of this NYT article as much as I do.

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