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

[Eric M. Bennett]

>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.

Maybe that's a bad choice of wording on my part, but from what I can 
tell these sorts of incidents don't usually have spill-over effects 
on systems (like ATMs) that one assumes are not directly dependent on 
the internet.  This one apparently did.


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