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RE: How to crash the Internet
ITSamurai 14th Feb 2011
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Tony, when dealing with any M$ bias simply point out the overwhelming target share. Any MAC cheerleader is far more familiar and capable of wielding their bitterness than you will ever be. As I mentioned in another comment botnets generally target Windows because it's the majority of what's connected to the internet... I've seen a good share of *nix zombies - aaaaaand the first case of international espionage involved a GNU EMACs vulnerability. Generally it takes longer to convince a non Windows user they have a problem than it does to fix it...
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