OpenSSH vulnerability?

[Michael ODonnell]

>> Hey!  cool - if this FUD approach is so effective maybe we can
>> use it to rid the world of some other scourges.  Like what if we
>> very coyly insinuated that there *might* be one or two flaws in
>> Microsoft Windows[...]
>
>It hasn't worked agains MS yet...


Right - that was my (possibly too-subtle) point - how frustrating
it is that a useful and robust tool like OpenSSH is thrown under
the bus by those ISPs after one unsubstantiated whiff of FUD, yet
despite the many documented Windows vulnerabilities they apparently
never consider using anything else.

And never once, BTW, in all the news accounts I've heard about
the ongoing DOS attacks, have any of the talking heads mentioned
that the zombie machines comprising the bot-nets are (mostly?)
all running Microsoft Windows.  Didn't their parents teach them
that it's important to give credit where it's due...  ;->