[Westwales] Made me laugh

[Jonathan Atkinson]

It amuses me that the former head of MS 'security' has just been
appointed the US security czar.

--JonA

On Mon, 2003-02-03 at 19:38, James Davis wrote:
> On Sun, 2 Feb 2003, Jonathan West wrote:
> 
> > " Microsoft issued a patch six months ago which
> > could have stopped the worm, but its networks were quagmired too because
> > the company failed to install it."
> >
> > If Billy boy was a doctor or something he would have been sued to kingdom
> > come by now for negligence :-)
> 
> On one hand I think that Microsoft should have worked harder to produce a
> product that didn't need such frequent patching and that if the Microsoft
> network administrators couldn't work their way through it then how do they
> expect us to?
> 
> On the other (more balanced??) hand however, I doubt that the network
> administrators are that closely connected to the SQL server developers and
> are as wary of installing patches on production systems as the rest of us.
> 
> Still.. the worm could have been worse, spreading further and faster and
> with a destructive payload.
> 
> James