[ale] Now this is just bloody frightening as all hell!

[mike at trausch.us]

On 08/07/2012 11:17 AM, Michael H. Warfield wrote:
> I'm sure a number of us are already aware of this incident.  It was even
> mentioned at last nights AUUG meeting about a reporter getting hacked
> and wiped back to the stone age.

Wow.

I don't even have anything more to say than that.

The answer... at least, in addition to the endless and seemingly
pointless education of end-users, is for a company that actually has a
security clue to run such services.  There should have been many more
obstacles in the crackers' way.

	--- Mike

-- 
A man who reasons deliberately, manages it better after studying Logic
than he could before, if he is sincere about it and has common sense.
                                   --- Carveth Read, “Logic”

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