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Re: First Email of the Day (Re: OT: The Irony in It!)

From: a.s.j. <kali_at_xxxx.com>
Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2003 13:02:16 -0500
Message-ID: <3E357428.7142@xxxx.com>


Stan wrote:
>
> Telling the head of IT "thank god we don't run SQL Server, or else we
> would have been hit by that worm" directly implies that the head of IT
> is enough of a lunkhead to not only fail to apply security patches,
> but to leave ports 1433 and 1434 OPEN TO THE INTERNET. In essence,
> it's a direct insult to the recipient of the email.
>
> Quite a career move, but I get the impression it won't be considered
> out of character for you.

hmmm...i give our IT more credit than that....we switched to linux didn't we? on the other hand, IT heads who continue to use microsoft products on the face of such problems sure do NEED to have their "heads" examined, don't they (pun intended)? Received on Mon Jan 27 2003 - 12:02:16 CST

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