From: "Joe Barr" 


MS internal network came crashing down because they were running unpatches
MS SQL servers exposed to the wild.

Goodness gracious.


HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAH!!!!


On Tue, 28 Jan 2003 23:55:00 +0000, Scott.Little wrote:

>  [ 27 Jan 03 17:17, Joe Barr wrote to All ]
>
>  JB> Microsoft Exchange Server               Exim (http://www.exim.org)
>
> Clueless.
>
>
> If this arseclown can give me a good reason why we should use Linux over
> say FreeBSD, I may just concede the point.  But he'll probably say
> something about driver support, faster development, more applications,
> wider community acceptance, etc. in which case I'll just have to say RIGHT
> BACK ATCHA RETARD.
>
> Now... I'm converting/have converted most of my network to Linux, but I
> know and accept that I am both gaining and losing in the process, and I
> feel I'm losing far more than gaining, but what I do gain is more
> important to me than what I lose (namely, it's Free (as in, no large
> company is going to try and fuck me over with this), and command-line
> based, which is my natural habitat).
>
> OTOH, none of that shit matters to most medium to large companies.
>
> And lets not forget that A) this SQL bug was fixed in July or something B)
> some retard put a live SQL box outside the god damn firewall C) I read
> Bugtraq, UNIX has more than it's fair share of exploits, so get the fuck
> off your high horse already.
>
>
> -- Scott Little  [fidonet#3:712/848 / sysgod{at}sysgod.org]
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