The Age: SA Pollie Weighs in About Sasser Worm

[ Thanks to Phillip Brown for this link. ]

"Politicians are rarely known to speak out about computer worms but South Australian Democrat Ian Gilfillan is not about to let the Sasser worm episode go by without having his say...

"'The Sasser worm doesn't affect Apple, Sun, BSD, Unix, or Linux systems. Once again we see governments and businesses around Australia are being slammed by a computer program that exploits weaknesses in one brand of proprietary software...'"

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