Did Microsoft write the viruses? No. It's a-hole hackers causing trouble.
Microsoft just happens to be the big target. And yes, Mac and Linux are
vulnerable. Check this
http://www.hyperactivesw.com/Virus2.html, or this
http://antivirus.about.com/od/macintoshresource/a/macosxflaws.htmLinux has been hit with viruses for more than 3 years now:
http://www.viruslist.com/eng/viruslist.html?id=4150It's just that Microsoft is a bigger target.
Anything is a target if security hasn't been specifically designed into the
product.
Bringing it back to MOTM: I could hack any of Paul's new microcontroller
based products to do crazy things such as crashing constantly, locking up
throw off the timing, etc.
And just as easily, I'm sure many of you on this list could do it to my
processor based products too. Why, because there is little reason for us to
spend the time and money making these products hack proof. They simply
aren't targets.
BTW, for anyone on this list that owns an Expressionist, I've updated the
firmware and it's on the site. There are now 4 LFOs (instead of the previous
3) and I've added several new waveforms. The list shown below was a quick
copy from my source code so I wouldn't have to type them all here.
dc.b'Sine Bipolar ';0 Original
dc.b'Sine Unipolar ';1
dc.b'Sine HalfWave ';2
dc.b'Sine FullWave ';3
dc.b'Triangle ';4 Original
dc.b'Square ';5 Original
dc.b'Square Bipolar';6
dc.b'Pulse 25% ';7
dc.b'Pulse 75% ';8
dc.b'Saw Up ';9 Original
dc.b'Saw Down ';10 Original
dc.b'Random ';11 Original
Tony
-----Original Message-----
From: Thomas Hudson [mailto:
thomas_hudson@...]
Sent: Tuesday, June 15, 2004 8:59 PM
To: MOTM litserv
Subject: Re: [motm] Re: OT: Yahoo crap ??
The world would be a better place if people didn't use Microsoft crap.
No Mac OS X or Linux boxes are vulnerable to this. We just have to bear
the brunt of thousands of Windows boxes that are infected.
Tomy's Law:
99 percent of people who say they hate computers use Windows.
99 percent of people who say they love computers use Linux or Mac OS X.
> Don't you just love these thoughtful people who are working so hard
> to make the world a better place?
Don't you love the people that became billionaires by selling the least
engineered solution and made it ubiquitous through questionable
business practices and marketing.
To make this relevant to the MOTM list, I chose MOTM for Paul's no
compromise engineering, which is the opposite that M$ has EVER done. M$
is sort of like the insurance industry, I will cost X to fix it and it
will cost Y to handle lawsuits, and Y is cheaper.
Tomy
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