Phil Karn can't stand all the Windows-spawned viruses he gets. So? What makes him so special? He co-wrote some error-correction code that Microsoft included in Windows XP. That means the company credited him in the release notes - and thoughtfully provided his e-mail address. So potentially everybody with Windows XP on their PC now has his address for a worm to find and bombard.
"My wife is a registered nurse. If one of her patients developed a staph infection because she neglected to follow proper sanitary procedures, would she be able to blame it all on the staph bacteria? Of course not! But when Microsoft fails to practice proper software engineering hygiene, they just shrug off the resulting flood of worms and viruses as the fault of the lower life-forms who write them. And they get away with it! "
Via joatBlog.
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