Russ Cooper Quotations

Maybe it's going to take a massive online attack ... a concerted attack against government interests. It's hard to say what will cause a shift in the thinking.

I have a lot of control from within my browser, such as Web proxies, but in mail, what controls do I have? ... I have nowhere near the same amount of security.

I don't think Windows is more or less secure than some other operating system, ... I think that there are technologies from Microsoft that are good; there are others that are not good; and there are others that still need to be refined and improved, but that are still very much in demand.

I think there are enough hackers in the world that will look for machines they can own. It's not difficult to find them. It is very easy to control a large number of machines.

Our recommendation to our customers is to get patches applied within 90 days, because the normal mechanisms should prevent this from getting to your organization.

Microsoft is building a more robust environment, with network checks and system screening conducted before access to an internal system is granted.

There are probably a significant number of machines that have been compromised and nobody knows.

To check all those signatures may be cumbersome and not a quick fix, but it's a good idea.

The study means absolutely nothing. There are so many easier ways to get access to someone's password.

As far as we're concerned, the threat is being vastly overblown. It's not being massively exploited.

This is going to cause the meltdown of the Internet, the vulnerability that this worm is exploiting.

This is a very sophisticated worm with several new twists

There's been way more attention given it in the media than it deserves.

If Microsoft's publicity of this update is successful, far too many consumers will believe they have received a comprehensive security update, ... This will make it significantly more difficult to convince them to take additional steps to secure themselves.