mitigating botnet C&Cs has become useless

Sun Aug 13 21:53:50 UTC 2006

Sean Donelan wrote:

> On Sun, 13 Aug 2006, Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr. wrote:
> 
>> This morning's Omaha Weird Harold has a front-page item about the City 
>> installing free wiffy hotspots around town.  It may be time for you to 
>> reconsider the options on the buggy-whip plant.
> 
> Any information about how the City plans to solve the problem of their
> citizens using compromised PCs via their WiFi hotspots around town?

Not even any word on how they will pay for it, what with a number of 
expensive vote getters^W^Wcivic projects having spent the available 
money a couple of times.

But that is not really a new problem--the State of Iowa has (some time 
ago) equipped the highway rest areas and there are enough Starbucks 
around that you wonder why the City needs to do anything.

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