[LINK] Exploits for Windows flaws released

[Adam Todd]

At 14:48 31/12/2004 +1100, Howard Lowndes wrote:
>On Fri, 2004-12-31 at 11:38, Adam Todd wrote:
> > I enjoyed reading this one, particularly the seventh paragraph!
> >
> > Is this the new method of "outing" Microsoft and giving hackers a free 
> ride?
> >
> > The second last paragraph is so "common sense" it's not funny, but fro 
> some
> > reason, no matter how many times you tell people ...
>
>The problem is that so many ppl have very little understanding of
>computers that when you confront them with these types of problems they
>just put up the shutters and block their ears; they have a firm
>conviction that "it can't happen to them"

But like the concept of DoCS and Police raiding your home and taking your 
breast fed child, or putting you in a mental hospital for whatever 
political reason has recently been in-serviced.

Oh it can never happen to them, and suddenly it does and they come running 
to you for advice - free of charge and all your time and effort of course.