Firewall security: Problems with simple Samba file share 3598

All probabilities are greater than 0 for not-impossible things, so the spontaneusly decide to disbuttociate in 4.3s time and reform themselves into a crate of beer.

So what? The probability is lower than an airliner dropping out of the sky and on to my server rack.

No I'm not - improbable situation, so neglible. Consider instead the higher probability that somebody in your company decides to go mad and wipe the server disks. I'm sure that at least two people in the USA go screaming mad while employed every year. That would be 1:100000000.

Always.

That's what I said.

Yes it is. Epedemiology theory.

Nope - just observation. Exploits need a medium through which they can spread, receptors on the cell walls, if you like. Not enough of the right kind of receptor, and the exploit never spreads through the population, hence dies out. Successful exploits are those that spread, and the reason that you aren't already infected by a successful exploit is because none ever spread.

Consider why.

The answer is that none were able to spread as fast as the immunisation against them spread, in the open source environment, and that none ever found sufficient monoculture to be able to spread.

Peter