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From: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in>
To: "G. Adam Stanislav" <adam@whizkidtech.net>
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Subject: Re: Politically correct IIS attack
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G. Adam Stanislav said on May 19, 2001 at 11:17:31:
> >which conclusively proves that you can break into an IIS server
> >MUCH faster than you can break into an Apache server. ;-)
> 
> Strange. That article also gives the impression that someone
> at MS is taking political correctness to the extreme.
> 
> Whenever the article talks about an attacker, it says "she" or
> "her". Is MS suggesting that only a woman would attack an IIS?

It's pretty common these days.  Also, hasn't this come up before?
Seems to be a favourite topic of yours :)

http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=151171+152739+/usr/local/www/db/text/2001/freebsd-chat/20010211.freebsd-chat 
and the thread which followed...

-R


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