Mohtalim

http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2003-20.html

cover your ports now, if it's not already too late!

They had everyone in the office here shut down the computers because of the blaster worm. Then once the main servers or whatnot had patched, we were allowed to individually turn our own systems back on and patch.

slow. We did that yesterday.

fwiw, i had to stop what i was working on last week to patch this damn vulnerability. took two days off my run time.

our email system went down for most of the afternoon while they patched those servers. kind of stupid. I wonder how much money they lost on that one, got to be millions.

I know it kept my productivity down yesterday afternoon as I was having some trouble using remote desktop.

Hmm... passed unscathed here, doh.

quantus wrote:slow. We did that yesterday.

They had sent out an advisory, but I guess they decided not to do anything serious until systems started getting hit.

the advisory was 3 weeks ago. No one does anything until they have to. It's the first law of laziness.

Hmm... reminds me of the newest traffic light in front of my family restaurant. Although the community wanted a traffic light there as soon as a new home depot was built, the city wouldn't allow it until a certain threshold of accidents was exceeded. Yes, they said that, and supposedly, it's a common occurence.

man, I'd sue the pants off a city with that as a limiter on installing a traffic light at an obviously dangerous intersection. Please say you knew someone who got in an accident there so we can all get rich off of that person's pain. I call a 10% finders fee on the settlement.

You might be thinking at this moment that I have no ethics for saying "so we can all get rich off of that person's pain", but it's business. As was clearly pointed out to me this morning, business and ethics are two different things... Business has none. *

* the two posts above do not necessarily represent the true opinions of the poster.

Don't worry Joe, we're all bastards and understand you completely.

Do you really? I unfortunately do have enough ethics to prevent me from claiming 10% and still sue the city for neglegence.

quantus wrote:... I unfortunately do have enough ethics to prevent me from claiming 10% ...

loser

I get a bonus of an extra half day's pay for taking a course on ethics here at Intel, which I have. So I'm ethical, for a price.

uh huh. You just wanted to get out of work. The extra pay was just a bonus.

Dwindlehop wrote:I get a bonus of an extra half day's pay for taking a course on ethics here at Intel, which I have. So I'm ethical, for a price.

that's bullshit. we're required to do that every year and if your manager is an ass you have to make up the time you missed doing it.

actually, mine's reasonably sane and yours is bullshit. i wouldn't ever go to any training if i was still expected to work that time.