Quotes by Roger Thompson

“When macro viruses first came on the scene, most viruses were still written in assembly language or machine code, ... And they were spread by physically transporting infected floppies from one machine to another. In those days, we recommended that you upgrade your anti-virus software every two to three months.”

“Ideally each workstation will be capable of detecting what it thinks is a new virus. And it should be able to get a response in 30 minutes.”

“If they had this in place before Loveletter came out, ... it wouldnt have happened. But I think they need to think it out a little more. They broke more functionality than they needed to break.”

“key to a deeper set of potential threats that can remotely run any program on your machine.”

“Its not the viruses that you attack, its the infection method. The problem is that you have 10,000 programmers in Redmond designing for functionality and not security.”

“This is one of the most impressive restoration projects seen in the Northwest.”

“It was a way to work with the tribe to restore a greater number of fish in that river system. And its the least work-intensive method. Instead of catching the fish and then hauling them by truck over land, the fish move themselves up and over the dam to the habitat beyond.”

“Is it worth it? Ultimately thats a question the public has to determine. I dont think theres anyone in the Northwest who doesnt want to save the salmon. As a public utility, we take our environmental stewardship very seriously.”

“Microsoft is making it impossible to run certain files from Outlook and we think that goes too far.”

“Sonys motives are reasonable from their point of view, but its a terrible security hole.”