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Re: Santa Fe city government computers knocked out by worm
- From: Alex Yuriev
- Date: Mon Nov 17 10:15:54 2003
> >No explaination why Sante Fe officials had not patched the city's
> >computers in the three months since Microsoft announced the vulnerability
> >and released the software updates. Nor why Sante Fe didn't have up to
> >date anti-virus programs running on its computers.
>
> Nor why they were using such rubbish software for a mission-
> critical system.
>
Because for people outside our little industry the software is a tool to get
a JOB done, not the job itself.
Alex
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