From Paul Flessner, VP of Database Development at Microsoft, referring to the 2003 SQL Server Slammer Worm:
“Note to self: Career advice–Don’t bring down the Internet. I got calls from Presidents of countries I didn’t know were countries”
And in fact Microsoft SQL Server security does seem to have improved considerably since then.
FWIW, Slammer had no affect on any of the systems I was responsible for at the time.
In my database work here I deal with a lot of documentation. As reading matter, most of it makes a reasonable cure for insomnia. However, today something caught my eye: I was going to deal with “names that are entities or non-humans”.
Of course, this is really about corporations and similar bodies. But I am still pleased to that see “non-humans” is part of government bureaucrateese.
A few minutes after I got home our son James asked me to look at his computer, saying he was having trouble connecting to the ‘Net and that his Norton Antivirus subscription had expired. Continue reading
