Re: worm warning?

[Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>]

> I think that we should send something like the following to 
> ietf-announce.  I'm especially interested in the first paragraph.
> (If anyone wants to wordsmith it, feel free; I'll be offline most of 
> Monday and Tuesday, and won't be able to respond.)
> 
> 
> Worm Warning
> 
> If you use a Windows laptop, please make sure that it has the full set 
> of security patches.  Additionally, *please* scan it to be sure that 
> it's not currently infected -- the wireless net at NANOG was more or 
> less non-functional the first morning because of aggressive scanning 
> activity by infected machines.
> 
> Also remember that neither wireless nor wired networks are at all 
> secure.  Please use appropriate cryptographic mechanisms for any 
> sensitive traffic, including (of course) email passwords.  There has 
> been "black hat" malicious activity from within the IETF net in the past,
> including session hijacking.

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me too