{"id":2257,"date":"2003-01-27T14:42:14","date_gmt":"2003-01-27T14:42:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/?p=2257"},"modified":"2003-01-27T14:42:14","modified_gmt":"2003-01-27T14:42:14","slug":"lazy_or_just_in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/?p=2257","title":{"rendered":"Lazy or Just Incompetent?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>C|net has an article about how the worm that hit over the weekend &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/news.com.com\/2102-1001-982135.html\">Worm exposes laziness and Microsoft flaws<\/a>&#8220;.  While I do like blaming MS, I lay a lot of blame on lazy and incompetent sysadmins.  From what I understand of this, it sounds like a lot of it could have been prevented with some solid network security. Do that many people really need their SQL Server installation open to the whole outside world?<\/p>\n<p \/>\n<p>And after Nimda, any sysadmin who didn&#8217;t have their machines patched should lose their job.  IMHO, there&#8217;s no excuse.  How many times do you have to get stung before you learn?<\/p>\n<p \/>\n<p>This brings up one of the issues I have with the dot.com boom.  When dot.coms were booming they were hiring like crazy.  A lot of people with little or no experience were hired, both developers and sysadmins.  While there were some that rose to the occasion and were quite good, there was a lot more mediocrity.  I think we&#8217;re seeing more fallout of that now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>C|net has an article about how the worm that hit over the weekend &#8220;Worm exposes laziness and Microsoft flaws&#8220;. While I do like blaming MS, I lay a lot of blame on lazy and incompetent sysadmins. From what I understand of this, it sounds like a lot of it could have been prevented with some [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2257\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}