Posted on 05/23/2002 5:47:43 AM PDT by TechJunkYard
Blank Administrator passwords... should not be possible. Thanks, Microsoft.
This isn't MS's fault. Admins that too freakin' stupid to apply some level of security to there systems deserve to have their servers infected.
Definetly agree with you there (also alot of MS viruses written by linux nuts)
Indeed.
Pay do tell us why?
If I follow your logic and leave my car door unlocked I deserve my car to be stolen?
This isn't Microsoft's problem, but you can try to blame them, as usual, if you want. It's a free country to be an idiot in.
It's not a question of deserve, it's an issue of prevention. If you don't possess the common sense to lock your car, and somebody steals it, whose fault is it for not taking the minimum amount of preventive action?
By the same token, if as a sysadmin, you can't perform a common sense step like applying a password and your system gets hacked, you are at fault for not taking steps to prevent it.
That really isn't the same thing. It's more like if you leaving your car parked in Newark NJ, in the worst neighborhood that you can find, with the windows down, the door unlocked and the keys in the ignition!
Definetly agree with you there (also alot of MS viruses written by linux nuts)
Prove that statement or retract.
The article states that the software is sometimes installed by other software packages. In my own company, there are a bunch of workstations which have SQL Server installed, and the users have no idea it's there.
This isn't Microsoft's problem...
But MS certainly causes the problem when it allows a default installation that's so easily compromised. You think the design of (say) the transmission selector which has a tendency to slip out of park while the engine is running is NOT the fault of the car's manufacturer?
And if everyone was still using typewriters, they would write viruses to hit them. MS gets hit because everyone is using it, not because they are weak.
Prove that statement or retract."
I've been in IT for many years and the only people I ever knew, that wrote or collected viruses were linux nuts (not to be confused with linux users, advocates or admins).
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