Whereas, Microsoft continuously demonstrates an inability to produce software impervious to attack, as evidenced quarterly at CERT.ORG in bulletins addressing all of Microsoft’s operating systems, including their latest one; and
Whereas, viable operating systems supporting all common communications and business protocols produced by vendors other than Microsoft do not suffer such problems by several orders of magnitude; and
Whereas, the vast and overwhelming majority of breakins and subornations of user PCs, to serve as platforms for the furtherance of criminal interaction with and abuses of the Internet, concern PCs using Microsoft Operating Systems (Windows) or using Microsoft Software (applications on OS/X); and
Whereas, the continued presence of such insecurity on the Internet is a threat to national and international security and destabilizes and diminishes the value of the use of the Internet to execute commerce of all kinds;
Therefore, be it:
Resolved, that no network is secure which provides for the delivery of material from the Internet to a Windows PC or a PC using Microsoft software, NAT and DHCP notwithstanding; and
Resolved, that a simple and expeditious solution to the worldwide problems of “SPAM”, “spyware” and “ability to distribute the application of criminal processes worldwide”, is the enforced removal of all paths of connectivity between the Internet and any PC running Windows or other Microsoft software; and
Resolved, that the advice given to the general public should be to bite the bullet in defense of their sanity in particular and the operation of the Internet at large, and learn to use the now-emerged alternatives to Microsoft Software, in order to conduct their business free from the necessity to suffer the exposure to a continuous risk of the use of their property and access to the Internet to perform criminal activiities to benefit unauthorized and unentitled others.
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I say: FIRST get rid of MSware from the Internet. THEN see if you have anything left to speak of to mop up. Fix what's broken: band-aid regimes suck.
One final note: BOTNETS are why you get SPAM. There is exactly one person most responsible for this state of affairs, and that is BILL GATES. You may have noticed Bill now appearing in TV ads - this is a campaign to "humanize" him and to try to reform his image. Once people understand that BILL is why you get SPAM, they won't be at all impressed with the man any longer. The $billions he's donating now is money made from monopoly coercion of the market (Microsoft was CONVICTED IN COURT.) I see no reason to give him points for anything nice he's done until I see the general public aware of his FULL "record of service".
* or systems for which patches have not been applied for known exploits. However, the fact is that people who take SCRUPULOUS CARE of their MSware PCs with hourly antivirus updates STILL GET INVADED, whereas Unix systems kept up to date will virtually never, ever be invaded. The system you use is up to you: make a better choice of PC software. Use Unix.
