Thursday, August 21, 2003
Ever had a day where you question everything? Why are am I here? What the heck am I doing? At the end of the day you ask yourself what could be better than this and you find yourself answering, "A lot." Life is too short to have too many of these days.
 
There is no such thing as an original idea; a big bang, the one, the money maker. Ideas are born from data, information, and the exchange of knowledge. Ideas need to be discussed, researched, validated, confirmed, and massaged by many people. By the time this process is even half way completed, the idea is no longer original. The power in a knowledge based society, culture, or organization is the ability to construct, maintain, and communicate the biggest picture possible supported by all of the necessary detailed data and analysis.
 
Spread of 'Sobig.F' Virus Is Fastest Ever. A computer virus that circulated across the Internet this week, hard on the heels of another nasty online infection, has been declared the fastest e-mail outbreak ever. By The Associated Press. [New York Times: Technology]

Bigger and badder worms and viruses are hitting the Internet on a weekly basis. Most of these malicious little critters exploit vulnerabilities in Microsoft products. If one vulnerability is uncovered and exploited on the same scale as Sobig and MSBlast each week during a calendar year, what would the cost and permanent damage be to the Internet as a whole?

 

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