Security expert Bruce Schneier today wrote about the “Storm Worm” again. Go and read it and become very afraid if you are running the Windows operating system. Become even more afraid if you are responsible for a bunch of them, like in a company. And then get a clue and morph them all into something better, like installing any of the Linux/Unix/BSD variants.
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Anybody up to writing good directory software?
Tue, 2007-02-20 11:17 — David JonathanSince the very beginning, directories (of any kind) have had a very central role in the internet. (I have recently grown fond of Free Web Directory. Even Slashdot can be considered a directory: a collection of great news and invaluable user-generated comments. As far as software is concerned, doing a quick search on Google about software directories will return the free (as in freedom) software directories like Savannah, SourceForge, Freshmeat and so on, followed by shareware and freeware sites such as FileBuzz, PCWin Download Center and All Freeware (great if you're looking for shareware and freeware, but definitely less comprehensive than their free-as-in-freedom counterparts).
Is better education the key to finding better software?
Sat, 2007-03-03 03:25 — Edward RusselI read David Jonathon's article Anybody Up To Writing Good Directory Software? the other day, which got me thinking about software directories in general. As David mentioned, many of the software directories one finds when doing a quick google search are free as in beer, not as in freedom. But what interests me is the software directories that already exist, providing a combination of both free as in beer software, and open source software. Sites such as Freeware Downloads and Shareware Download don't advertise themselves as providing free as in liberty software, but each of them have a good selection of open source software available... if you know where to look.
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dehumanizer
4 years 33 weeks 2 days 13 hours ago
Has this blogger ever heard about
Has this blogger ever heard about spam filtering and antivirus programs?
If one opens every crap that is .EXE (and is unprotected), he deserves an infection. Period.
Jimbob
4 years 33 weeks 2 days 11 hours ago
Did you only read the blog that
Did you only read the blog that is linked above or did you follow the link in the blog to Bruce Schneier's blog ( http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2007/10/the_storm_worm.html )? He appears to be a security expert. He has authored 8 books on security and speaks all over the world on security.
He is saying in _his_ blog that storm is extremely difficult to detect and is laying dormant on an estimated 1 - 50 million computers (obviously it's a large range due to difficulty in detecting it). If this thing brings down millions of machines you may find that you and your family and friends are affected. Maybe your machine will be fine. But the machines of people, websites and businesses you normally interact with may come crashing down.
I think I'll take his word on this over yours... if it's all the same to you.