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FPU - Hammond of Texas wrote: William Warren wrote: And, since you choose to self-annoint yourself the expert, just which network is yours? Please, email me off-list and supply the details of your annual budget, the number of IT staff, the number of stations, and the number of nodes. (Starbucks and your mother's house don't count, sorry). I'll summarize by saying that my resume includes the titles CIO and VP, which means that a big part of my job was convincing "real world businessmen" like you that security was a very real concern and that they ignored it at their peril. I've heard your mindless rationale before, ad nauseum. It still defies logic, and bespeaks a dangerous ignorance and/or a greed unique that of the compulsive gambler.As someone who is no CTO, but merely an admin running some mailservers, I can say that I have seen substantial amounts of spamtraffic injected by bad guys, through open WiFi hubs.With the explosion in zombified Windows machines, though, it isgetting hard to trace the original source of spam messages, so thismay be increasing or decreasing in popularity. I can't tell.--scott"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."
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