>>> "Greg" == Greg Hoglund <hoglund@IEWAY.COM> writes: Greg> I read yesturday on eEye.com that they had discovered a buffer Greg> overflow in IIS..... <snip> Greg> Lastly, I would simply like to point out that monoculture Greg> installations are very dangerous. It's a concept from Greg> agribusiness.. if you have all one crop, and a virus comes Greg> along that can kill that crop, your out of business. Very true, and this is a terrifically important message to get out. Not to be pedantic but actually it is a concept from ecology: the "business", as Greg puts it, can be any system. Diversity makes for resilience, and vice versa. Okay aleph, it's not a bug but it is a way we should be thinking. Greg> With Greg> almost ALL of the IIS servers on the net being vulnerable to Greg> this exploit, we also have a monoculture. And, it's not just Greg> IIS. The backbone of the Internet is built on common router Greg> technology (such as cisco IOS). If a serious exploit comes Greg> along for the IOS kernel, can you imagine the darkness that Greg> will fall? Ethan ethan+@pitt.edu
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