__/ [ Mark Kent ] on Wednesday 27 December 2006 07:40 \__
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> Jeremy Fisher <freya@xxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>>
>>> Aha! Look at the image on the left.
>>>
>>> Spam surge drives net crime spree
>>>
>>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>> | The tussle between computer security companies trying to protect your
>>> | PC and the bad guys that try to compromise it is often characterised as
>>> | an arms race.
>>> |
>>> | [...]
>>> |
>>> | Windows is the favourite target of malicious hackers
>>> |
>>> | [...]
>>> |
>>> | "92.6% of all e-mail messages are spam," said Dan Druker, spokesman for
>>> | Postini. "That's the highest it's ever been."
>>> `----
>>>
>>> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6198113.stm
>>>
>>> 86 billion SPAM a day and still rising. The vast majority of SPAM comes
>>> from Windows zombies and, judging by recent news, Vista will change
>>> nothing (exploits published before Vista is even released).
>>
>> Its clear action needs to be taken, my suggestion would be to ban windows
>> machines from the net. This may sound crass but it would focus M$ into
>> producing a secure OS, the simplest method would be tear up the windows
>> blue print, and adopt a linux kernel to build its OS on.
>> Jem..
>
> You're right on all counts, this is what should happen, and it would
> work. However, I cannot see the US giving up all that foreign revenue.
This would have to involve porting of software to GNU/Linux, which sometimes
means revealing the source code (and/or tracking companies that went
bankrupt years ago). This can't be an overnight thing. Some doors, as one
example among many, are controlled by machines running Windows. I can't
begin to describe how appalling it is that every now and then the doors
won't open because the system has crashed in the Faculty. A couple of months
ago there was an incident where a bunch of professors were stuck in the
building for several hours because of this. System carshes are assumed to be
the norm. Security issues are assumed to be the norm. Data must not be
stored unless absolutely vital, because it occasionally 'leaks'. But why?
Why? And why is it that a single department in some Redmond cubicles
controls all of this? Control. Centralisation. Authority. Patriotism?
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