RE: how we will program in the future

> From: Walden H. Leverich III
> 
> I submit to the argument that: most machines are "hacked" and "taken
over"
> not because the hacker knew the correct string of 7613 bytes to send
to a
> port to get Windows to run injected code, but rather because the
> administrator didn't properly secure the machine in the first place.

This is a change of subject!  Any computer is vulnerable to bad security
administration, from OS/400 to Windows.  But there are entire classes of
security breaches that are largely or wholly specific to Windows and
that require additional security patches just to counteract them, and
the "malicious website" problem is just one of them.

As to the issue of whether the administrator didn't secure the machine,
Nimda and its many brethren couldn't have flourished if it took an overt
act of bad administration on every one of the thousands or millions of
affected machines.  Instead, they were SHIPPED unsecured and vulnerable
to a host of worms and viruses.  And while you can easily argue that an
OS/400 machine needs to be locked down the moment it is installed, it is
asking a lot to expect Joe User to perform arcane and undocumented
system security tasks on his home PC.

Joe