Is there a way we can go back to the Maricopa Count IT dept and give them a
very polite "we told you so" (without sounding crass about it) and offer them
a solution that will work and save the county the millions they are about to
waste?
Since MS didn't tell anyone about this flaw until recently (and it appears to
be a flaw thats been in the original source tree since windows 95!), is this
not a breach on contract with the county? and if so, is there legal recourse
that we can suggest that will allow Maricopa county to "get off the hook" and
actually get down to operating a system as opposed to fixing someone elses
screw ups?.
btw, I posted a short letter to the editor regarding this very article in the
arizona republic. hope it gets published.
Mage
On Thursday 14 August 2003 10:39 am, Alan Dayley wrote:
> See this article in the AZ Republic today?
>
> http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/local/articles/0814worm14.html
>
> Among ASU and others that were hit hard was Maricopa County. Quoting from
> near the end of the article:
>
> "'Red alert' in county
>
> The virus has pushed Maricopa County into "red alert" status. In all, more
> than 260 computers were infected in the county's system, which includes
> more than 10,000 personal computers.
>
> Paul Allsing, the county's deputy chief information officer, describes the
> infection as mostly a waste of time.
>
> "It's taken us three full days to get this contained, which is the worst
> virus experience we've had," Allsing said. "It's been a significant
> consumption of county resources in terms of time."
>
> Allsing said residents shouldn't see a slowdown in customer service,
> although e-mails sent to the county may have been delayed. "
>
> [sarcasm on]
> I'm so glad they signed up for several more years of this! What a good use
> of scarce tax funds. [sarcasm off]
>
> Hopefully this will encourage more use of non-Micrsoft OSes to build a less
> homogenous infrastructure.
>
> Alan
>
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