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Ealing Council, the local authority for a number of London boroughs, was infected by a virus which crippled the vast majority of the council’s network.
The damage knocked out the housing department, the library service, telephone network and others, according to the BBC, as a result of plugging in an infected flash drive on a networked computer. But this raises a question of those who are still not yet fully IT literate.
If you plug in a flash memory drive and it infects a network, who is to blame - the user who doesn’t know any better, or the IT staff responsible for the network?
I suspect this is the wrong question, as it avoids pointing the finger at the real villain.
And, as usual, they neglected to mention the fact that it's a Windows virus.
I'd lay the blame squarely at the feet of management, who decided to use Windows as the default desktop. In most places, IT only implements policies, they don't create them.
There is absolutely no reason to use Windows as your default desktop anymore. Linux can do anything most places need done, and what it can't do can be handled by Wine, Citrix, or virtualization.
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