Saturday, May 06, 2006
There's always two ways of lookng at something
Adware gets onto your computer because some scumbag gets money for it. An alleged scumbag just got arrested for breaking in to many computers to install adware. He's supposed to have collected $100,000 in commissions.
Whether that guy's guily or not, somebody attacked a whole bunch of computers, including some belonging to the Department of Defense and others on the internal network of a hospital. According to the Seattle Post-Intelligencer report about the Northwest Hospital computer breakin, the damage included interference with operating room doors opening and closing, inoperative pagers, and shutdowns of computers in the intensive care unit.
It's perfectly right to look at this as a crime. But there's another question if the press got the events right.
Why in the name of the Flying Spaghetti Monster were systems that important exposed to the Internet?
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Whether that guy's guily or not, somebody attacked a whole bunch of computers, including some belonging to the Department of Defense and others on the internal network of a hospital. According to the Seattle Post-Intelligencer report about the Northwest Hospital computer breakin, the damage included interference with operating room doors opening and closing, inoperative pagers, and shutdowns of computers in the intensive care unit.
It's perfectly right to look at this as a crime. But there's another question if the press got the events right.
Why in the name of the Flying Spaghetti Monster were systems that important exposed to the Internet?
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