Security Vulnerability Bingo

An anonymous reader writes "Ben Bitdiddle of MIT fame sends an open letter to system administrators encouraging them to stop patching their systems so they can play 'Security Vulnerability Bingo.'"

Sounds fun...

[Jurily]

Shame it's such a blatant advertisement.

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[Sarten-X]

It is, but it's a nice presentation. I'll take this over flash-laden pop-ups any day.

A-D-O-B-E

[ducomputergeek]

Bingo!

...you insensitive clod...

[philipmather]

I administer an online bingo site and just had a panicky moment whilst reading that headline. "Security, Bingo? Erk!"

Attention Underlings...

[Thelasko]

the first person to get bingo, will be terminated.

That is all...

Advertisement

[JumpDrive]

But it seems that more than half of the security posts here are just advertisements. I think that putting them in 'Idle' is a helpful change. Maybe they should look at doing this more often with some of their articles or main posts.
If it really doesn't give us useful information other than " The sky is falling , the sky is falling...." and ends with buy this product, shouldn't it just be labeled advertisement.

The only chance of this being useful is if it creates a meaningful discussion. So I doubt it

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[Anonymous Coward]

Doesn't really happen to me but you seem to have plenty of experience.

Back in the day...

[dandart]

Gosh, I remember half of these from the 2.6.28 days. You're not still running that, are you? Dear, dear me.

Slashdotted?

[ildon]

I can't get the page to load. Their servers must be pretty weak if they can be slashdotted by an idle story with 11 comments (as of this writing).

We seem to have broken their server

[damn_registrars]

While not a security vulnerability per se, I think we should get a door prize for reducing their server to ruble.

Re:We seem to have broken their server

[mortonda]

I think a slashdotting is the free token in the middle of the board.

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[jspenguin1]

You're saying their server is only worth about 3 cents [google.com] now?

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[selven]

reducing their server to ruble.

I'm pretty sure hiring hackers in Russia is cheating.

Old ladies game

[DrugCheese]

Bingo is associated, at least with me, with an older crowd set. For the more youthful who would enjoy a faster developing game try setting up multiple dhcp servers in the same address range. It would ne the equivalent of Texas holdem.

  Entertainment is the only reason I can think of why a sys admin at a clients chooses to set them up that way. Well maybe it is closer to beer pong and the guy is just an idiot...

Fine with me

[Shoten]

Sure, it's fine if they stop patching their systems. Just so long as they keep patching the systems that belong to their employers before they decide to screw around.

Its just

[jobst]

Bingodverising.