[Am-info] Re: Virus-like attack hits web traffic

[Mitch Stone]

I'm not sure what you mean by "real world" consequences, but one of the 
"real politic" consequences is a Bush administration official siding 
with Microsoft by blaming the victims.

On Sunday, January 26, 2003, at 06:54 PM, Eric M. Bennett wrote:

>
> I'm interested by the following real-world consequence of this attack:
>
> http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/01/25/tech/main537959.shtml
>
> The worm that crippled tens of thousands of computers worldwide and 
> congested the network for countless others, even disabling Bank of 
> America cash machines, took advantage of a vulnerability in some 
> Microsoft Corp. software that had been discovered in July.