Re: [inbox] Re: CyberInsecurity: The cost of Monopoly

[Rodrigo Barbosa <rodrigob () suespammers org>]

As I said, I also think that Micro$oft is as insecure as my 8 y/o daughter
playing with a handgun.

But you do have to agree with me when I say that a great part of the
security problems we find in the wild, expecially regarding bug for which
fixed have been issued for several months, come from bad network management.

The weak link in the chain, in many (maybe most) chains is the human
factor.

[]s

On Sun, Sep 28, 2003 at 05:11:11PM -0500, Curt Purdy wrote:
> I must disagree.  When Netware has had one major security patch this year
> vs. 39 for Microsoft, the quality of the platform becomes fundamental.
>
> On Fri, Sep 26, 2003 at 11:59:04PM -0600, Bruce Ediger wrote:
> > On Fri, 26 Sep 2003, Rick Kingslan wrote:
> > Oh, wait.  Apache has about 2 times the market share of IIS, and I'm
> > still getting Code Red and Nimda hits TWO YEARS after they were released.
> >
> > By contrast, I only got about 2 days worth of hits from Slapper.
>
> Ok, I'm all for opensource and stuff. But this kind of thing, like
> still getting hitted by code red (same here), speaks more about the
> quality of the administrators then of the platform itself.

-- 
Rodrigo Barbosa <rodrigob () suespammers org>
"Be excellent to each other ..." - Bill & Ted (Wyld Stallyns)

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