Fwd: truth in advertising

[Robbie Honerkamp <robbie@shorty.com>]

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To: It was like that when I got here <crackmonkey@crackmonkey.org>
From: Sean Neakums <sneakums@zork.net>
Date: 12 Jun 2001 08:55:17 +0100
Subject: [CrackMonkey] Fwd: truth in advertising

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Newsgroups: alt.sysadmin.recovery
Subject: truth in advertising
Date: 10 Jun 2001 22:04:45 -0700

Some of you have probably seen the latest aggravating Microsoft ad
campaign where a soothing voice talks about how great their software is
without ever mentioning any specific Microsoft product, and
interestingly enough never showing any people either.

Well, the other day I was talking to one of the network security people
at my orkplace and I had this great idea for a commercial that would
showcase the true power of Microsoft software.

Shot of generic PC-clone box in rack.

                               VOICEOVER
     This is the web server for a Fortune 500 company.  It provides
     information and takes orders for their products.  But it can do
     much more.

     A pimply teenager in Albania had just sent it an unusual request.
     The software is not confused by this request.  It promptly grants
     the teenager full administrative access to the operating system.

Closeup of disk activity light turning on solid.

                               VOICEOVER
     The teenager quickly uploads his own software to the web server.
     Now, besides providing customer information and taking orders,

Closeup of ethernet switch; one of the link lights goes from blinking to
staying solidly on.

     the web server is UDP-flooding the Bulgarian ISP that is the home
     of one of his enemies on IRC.

Closeup of phone.  "Voicemail" light on phone turns on.

                               VOICEOVER
     The company's IT staff receives a call from their network service
     provider,

Show multiple shots of rack full of server boxes; a different box is
missing each time.

                               VOICEOVER
     and in a couple of frantic days and sleepless nights they shut down
     the servers broken into by the Albanian teenager, then reinstall
     and patch them.

Show original opening shot of PC-clone box in rack, followed by shots of
disk activity light going on solid and ethernet link light going on solid.

                               VOICEOVER
     The software's special capabilities are not eliminated by the
     patches, however, and within a week this web server receives
     another unusual request from a teenager in Bulgaria.

Quickly repeat shots of phone with voicemail light going on and rack
with missing server boxes.

                               VOICEOVER
     Always vulnerable, never really secured.
     Nimble software for the agile script kiddie, from Microsoft.

Show Microsoft logo over shot of monitor in rack displaying a Windows
desktop.  Just before fading out, monitor flashes to blue screen of
death.

-- 
Steve VanDevender  "I ride the big iron"  http://jcomm.uoregon.edu/~stevev
stevev@efn.org PGP key fingerprint=929FB79734DF8CC0 210DA447510FF93B
Little things break, circuitry burns / Time flies while my little world turns
Every day comes, every day goes / 100 years and nobody shows -- Happy Rhodes

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