Saturday, August 30, 2003
Jeffrey Parson
I have just a couple of things to say about the arrest of Jeffrey Parson, the author/modifier of the "MSBlast" worm that exploited a hole in Windows and took over a whole lot of computers a couple of weeks ago:
- He's been charged with "intentionally damaging thousands of computers owned by Redmond, Wash.-based Microsoft Corp., other businesses and individuals." So Microsoft itself got hit? Then let's not hear any more crap about how all this is the fault of lazy users who don't patch their systems. The fact is, lots of people don't patch their systems, for lots of reasons. The real solution is for Miscrosoft to produce more secure software in the first place.
- Does he look the part or what? I mean, it's almost too perfect. I'm not sure if he's actually guilty or if someone in the prosecutor's office just called central casting.
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With Microsoft's (new) idea that they should automatically patch their systems, that creates an entirely new threat. Once you get a disgruntled M$ employee, that throws a virus onto their WindowsUpdate queue, then…well, we'll have a real problem. Well, most people will have a *real* problem anyway.