HB1197 Status

[Ed Lawson]

On Thu, 16 Feb 2006 13:47:46 -0500
Seth Cohn <sethcohn at gnuhampshire.org> wrote:

> Late breaking news...

> HB1197 is now up for a reconsideration vote, since the study
committee
> would seek to know how and why this sort of thing happened, and
how/if
> open source could have prevented it.  (Cain and Abel is a
sniffer
> program, plain and simple... it took _six_ months for them to
look for
> weird traffic???)


Well, this is a password sniffer that has been around for five
years and no doubt has been in anti-virus software for nearly as
long yet they were running a windows box without running
anti-virus software and it was a server containing critical info.
What are the odds it is the tip of the old iceberg?

Sounds like a sys admin issue to me.

Ed Lawson