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From: bright@aplcen.apl.jhu.edu (Jonathan Bright)
Newsgroups: news.groups,news.sysadmin
Subject: Re: who, me?
Keywords: security, virus, summer job
Message-ID: <248@aplcen.apl.jhu.edu>
Date: 15 Nov 88 03:04:02 GMT
Reply-To: bright@aplcen.UUCP (Jonathan Bright)
Organization: Johns Hopkins University/CPP, Laurel, MD
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Oh, in my last posting I remembered to flame software vendors
a little because they have been too lazy in the past to take
reasonable measures to deliver secure software, but I forgot to also
flame system administrators.  So here I go:

FLAME ON:
So why the hell are so many system administrators out there refusing
to take any responsibility for the computer systems that they are
responsible for?  Oh yeah, now after the virus struck many of them
having been making an effort to tighten up their systems, but three
weeks from now they will go back to their old ways, and wont even
take the time to install posted bug fixes anymore.
FLAME OFF:

Of course, this is an over generalization and hence shouldn't be
taken too seriously.  But I'm afraid that what I said describes too
many system admins out there.  But to be fair, if a CIS dept.
at some college wants to be cheap and use a grad student who really 
doesn't have the time or the background to system administrate properly, 
can you really really blame the poor grad student?

Disclaimer: This letter was orginally meant to be sent to /dev/null,
but due to a software foulup on our system, it was accidentally posted
instead...