RE: [cobalt-developers] LION WORM

["Jamie Rossi" <jamie@xxxxxxxxx>]

Reality check please!!!!!
so what happens if I apply the patch the day it comes out, and two months
later get infected!!! Thats exactly what happened to me.. I have been a
sysadmin for 7 years and have never heard such a pathetic excuse as " if you
get hacked by a new exploit its your own fault"

Don't talk so stupid..if I buy a car I expect the safety features to work, I
don't expect to have to pump up the airbag myself each day!!!

Jamie Rossi

-----Original Message-----
From: cobalt-developers-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:cobalt-developers-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Andres
Petralli
Sent: 19 April 2001 21:09
To: cobalt-developers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: AW: [cobalt-developers] LION WORM


> It was my understanding that it was the BIND community that
> was caught with their pants
> down....not Cobalt.  I mean this affected BIND not Cobalt
> right.  It is a BIND exploit right?
>
> Or maybe I'm just rambling
>


No, you're completely right! It's not Cobalt's fault, it's ISC.org's
fault, or, no! Stop, it's not even ISC.org's fault but rathermost those
idiots who make such worms. There will allways be some security leaks
and as long noone exploits them, nobody gets harmed. So stop blaiming
Cobalt for something that they're not responsible for. Everyone could
have made that update for BIND way earlier, before the situation got
ugly. It's everyone's fault who didn't update in time. If you run a
public webserver you are exposed to everyone, even to those that may
harm your website. You should take those security warnings a little more
serious and we wouldn't have to talk about this worm.

It's the internet. Nobody said the internet is a nice place to be :-)

Greets

Andres

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