August 14, 2003
That which they so richly deserve
I'm unsurprised with the latest situation surrounding virus attacks on Windows. When you've got the number one operating system it's not like you don't expect to have idiots trying to destroy it.
But for those folks dumb enough to operate their equipment in an irresponsible manner, and thus get infected by this sort of crap, you get what you deserve.
Sure, the MacOS folks want to gloat and the Unix people too. Forgetting, of course, the utter dearth of software for their platforms. That nobody's attacking them doesn't make guarantee they're any less secure. They just not being made targets of abuse. I'm certainly not wishing it upon them, of course.
What these outbreaks show is people's continuing failure to take responsibilty for their computing resources. Blaming the tool makers is lame, at best.
So if you're in an environment or on a machine that's suffering from one of these attacks get a mirror. Look closely at it. You'll see the prime candidate you should be blaming. If you don't take responsibility for the resource you depend upon don't expect everyone else to do it for you.
