November 13, 2003
InfoWorld: Princeton, HP Labs demo plastic write-once memory.
Researchers at the Princeton, New Jersey school and Palo Alto, California-based company, were able to develop a write-once memory cell that can hold gigabytes of information and be produced very inexpensively from a commonly used plastic substance and a small amount of silicon, they said.
CIO: FrankenPatch.
Those looking to cast blame—and there were many—cried a familiar refrain: If everyone had just patched his system in the first place, Slammer wouldn't have happened. But that's not true. And therein lies our story. Slammer was unstoppable. Which points to a bigger issue: Patching no longer works.
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