Michael Fischer

Canterbury

Anthropologist

Hype!? Gazillions of machines crashing around our ears, and this is hype! Bashing Apple for fixing unexploited holes in OS X is hype. Predicting dire outcomes when one of the dozen or so virii or worms for Linux has been released is hype. Hospitals, coast guards, banks and BA being crippled is not hype.

This is a real problem, which is escalating. I think its about time for legistation to prevent critical services and institutions from using insecure equipment and operating systems. This would not rule out Windows, but it would have to be demonstated that a) all possible measures were being taken (e.g. patching etc up to date) AND b) that the system is secure under conditions of a). Continuing as things are is madness.