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Citing Security Risks, U. of California at Santa Barbara Bans Windows 2000 on Residential Network

In an effort to protect its residential computer network from worms, viruses, and other threats, the University of California at Santa Barbara has banned students on the network from using two Microsoft operating systems -- Windows 2000 and Windows NT 4.0.

Windows 2000 was "primarily responsible for hundreds of problems" that afflicted the residential computing system during the 2001-2 academic year, according to a policy statement that university technology officials issued to students. The network had to be shut down on multiple occasions last year because of worms, viruses, and denial-of-service attacks that were unleashed from insecure computers on the network.

... and this is just stupid: Panama begins blocking IP ports.

It's things like this that make this organization necessary: The American Open Technology Consortium - "a nonprofit organization of technologists who have joined together to educate lawmakers and regulators about technology, especially in regards to The Internet. [They've] compiled a list of the lawmakers responsible for eight bad internet laws. They say, 'These bad coders and their backers have done more damage to computing, the Internet and freedom than all the virus authors, spammers and crackers combined.'"

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