Well, it's obvious that Thomas A. Johnson isn't (hopefully)Dean of the School of Mathematics. 128,678 attacks in over five billion logs? That's a frequency of approximately one in forty thousand. Forty thousand LOGS, that is. Unless by "log" he means "log entry" and even that is a remarkably low ratio. If we had that low a ratio where I work, I would be concerned that our firewall wasn't doing its job.

Regarding credentials obtained by writing and lecturing: my mother (who taught mathematics) had a saying: "A piece of paper will stand still for anyone." Same thing goes for a microphone.

Listen, Howard Schmidt. Aside from a dead battery, the biggest danger to a pacemaker today -- and tomorrow -- is the electromagnetic pulse from an atom bomb detonation, not some computer virus that is somehow going to crawl up my arm and burrow into my chest. Give it a rest.

Love, Dexter

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