Re: Vendors's DUMB question

["Wayne J. Hauber" <wjhauber () iastate edu>]

At 10:47 AM 9/9/2006, Kevin McAleavey wrote:
> I'm almost embarassed to ask this one as we haven't had a corporate 
> customer in EONS still using NT 3.x or 4.x on their networks, but 
> figgered I'd put this out to others who deal with curmudgeon 
> customers in hopes of finding out if there's still any "NT" users 
> alive out there?

I encounter NT systems on an infrequent basis at my university. I see 
them one by one as they are compromised by intruders :-)

Usually they run a specialized application that was installed years 
ago and cannot be upgraded. Some are controllers for very expensive 
research instruments.

These systems are thought of as "appliances" by their owners. They 
serve a need as any appliance should and are never touched by 
upgrades during their life-span. At one time, computers could be 
treated as appliances...the owners would be very happy if that was true today.

I don't know if any of my NT owners would be interested in your 
software. They simply want their appliances and are not interested in 
the underlying OS, security or malware.



Wayne Hauber (515) 294-9890
Information Technology Services
IT Security and Policies
297 Durham Center, ISU, Ames, Iowa 50011
wjhauber () iastate edu  

_______________________________________________
Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts.
https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec
Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.