[plug] Are we at 'war' with Microsoft?

[James Devenish]

[Redux of a thread from earlier in the month.]

In message <3FAB51E3.6070907 at postnewspapers.com.au>
on Fri, Nov 07, 2003 at 04:03:47PM +0800, Craig Ringer wrote:
> In message <20031107074945.GB13211 at mail.guild.uwa.edu.au>
> on Fri, Nov 07, 2003 at 03:49:45PM +0800, James Devenish wrote:
> >How many point-of-sales systems run Windows XP?
> 
> Far too many. It's scary what gets sold to small retailers. I've seen
> PoS systems running WinME, not even locked down. There was a minimised
> copy of "solitaire" in the task bar.

<http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2003/11/25/nachi_worm_turned_cash_machines_into_scanning_engines.html>

Selected excerpts from the above (a US story, I assume): "The Nachi worm
compromised cash machines...according to Diebold, which manufactured the
Windows-based automatic teller machines...the first confirmed case of
malicious code penetrating cash machines, according to Security
Focus...The Nachi worm exploited a RPC DCOM hole, for which Microsoft
issued a patch a month prior...About 12 percent of ATM systems currently
run on Windows-based operating systems."

Many of you might be aware that Diebold is notorious for its
catastrophic^Wunbelievably flawed^W^Wallegedly unacceptable
voting machines.


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