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Re: What do you want your ISP to block today?
- From: Matthew S. Hallacy
- Date: Sun Aug 31 01:09:55 2003
On Sat, Aug 30, 2003 at 02:53:46PM -0400, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
> This, in fact, is the single biggest thorn in our side at the moment. It's hard
> to adopt a pious "patch your broken box" attitude when the user can't get it
> patched without getting 0wned first...
>
This is where you start forcing users through a captive portal to the update
site of their vendor, I think they'll get the idea when every site they try to
bring up turns out to be windowsupdate.microsoft.com
[snip]
> Given the Lion worm that hit Linux boxes, and the fact there's apparently a
> known remote-root (since fixed) for Apple's OSX, what operating systems would
> you consider "acceptable"?
Anything that's not currently infected, and is patched to the current 'safe'
level.
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