Re: How Secure is Windows, Really?

Doing something without knowledge of the application is just vandalism.
Vandalism isn't enough of a enticement for a virus writer to try and
attack a companies iBox.

JMHO, of course.

i think denial of service is still the largest by far.....
piss*d employees
and just simple commerce - there's money to be made - 20 years ago
i had someone offer me money to hack his competitor (i said no).
Stop looking in the papers & web news for commerce hacks-nobody
admits they have been had, but it's out there in a pretty big way.
jim

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Sent: Wednesday, January 03, 2007 1:55 PM
Subject: Re: How Secure is Windows, Really?

Jim Franz wrote:

The number of virus writers that know OS400 is pretty small, the number
of those that know BPCS, is probably even smaller.

the number that know sql is huge...
the number that know qshell  is big

Right ... but to do damage with a goal, you need to know the
application.  Knowing SQL doesn't tell you where the BPCS AP files are
(so you could, theoretically, cut yourself a check).

Doing something without knowledge of the application is just vandalism.
Vandalism isn't enough of a enticement for a virus writer to try and
attack a companies iBox.

JMHO, of course.

david

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