Re: OS to know.

[Jonathan Pauli <jpauli () istreamimaging com>]

This is some serious Troll Bait put out by curtis I think.
I'm hoping most of the infrastructure Curtis mentioned isn't on the 
public Internet. I know a grad student who trained at a Navy base in 
Florida for a summer in info security. She says they use custom hacked 
Unix variants- never a stock kernel. They use windows boxes for desktop 
apps a lot- but what did you expect? In this day I suspect we are 
terrorists automagically for merely being on a mailing list in which 
someone thinks about mentioning enumerating and focusing on operating 
systems .mil uses- so who wants to think about trying to verify this?

Raoul Armfield wrote:

> Steven Kalcevich wrote:
>
> > I can see Cyberguard Firewall Appliance an issue for telling anyone 
> > the rest is standard, i mean they arent running windows 3.11 for 
> > workgroups :) or custom OS Marine XP for workstations for general 
> > work. be glad he didnt say DOS :)
>
> but then again, now a hacker knows that they can focus on RH Ent, 
> Solaris or BSD,  They can also concentrate vulnerabilities in the 
> routers because they have the specific IOS release they are running so 
> they.   remember the first step is enumeration and Curtis made that 
> all the easier.  Also this post is not only in the mailboxes of the 
> subscribers but freely available on the net in the archives.
>
> Raoul
>
> > Regards
> >
> > Steve Kalcevich
> >
> > xyberpix wrote:
> >
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> > >
> > > Curtis,
> > >
> > > You're joking right?????
> > > Are you allowed to give all that info out?
> > >
> > > xyberpix
> > >
> > > On 13 Oct 2005, at 00:57, Curtis LaMasters wrote:
> > >
> > > > I'm a Systems Administrator in the Marine Coprs so I can give you
> > > > insigt on the military section of the government.  We are currently
> > > > running Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Windows XP, Windows 2000 as our
> > > > typical server and desktop operating systems.  You will see some
> > > > instances of Red Hat Enterprise, Solaris, and BSD.  Our current
> > > > firewall choice is the Cyberguard Firewall Appliance.  As for routers
> > > > and switches we are 100 percent Cisco IOS.  The current standardized
> > > > os is 12.3x.  Hope that helps.
> > > >
> > > > Curtis
> > > >
> > > > On 10/11/05, John Williams <ibmros () hotmail com> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > I am a graduate student at George Mason University obtaining my MS in
> > > > > Information Security and Assurance. What operating system is used  
> > > > > more for
> > > > > security administration in the private sector versus the  
> > > > > government sector?
> > > > > Pretty much I would like to know what operating system I should  
> > > > > focus on if
> > > > > I wanted to pursue a government career in security or if I wanted  
> > > > > to purse a
> > > > > career in the private sector. Thanks.
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > Mark Jacobs
> > > > >
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> > > > --
> > > > Curtis LaMasters
> > > >
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