Re: on the university problem

[Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu]

On Mon, 13 Aug 2007 11:51:09 EDT, Alex Eckelberry said:
> site:.edu or site:.gov as operators.  It's clear it's far, far more of a
> problem in the .edu space than at least .gov, largely because of the
> reasons everyone knows (unpatched open source, etc.). 

I don't think that "unpatched open source" is anywhere on the radar as a
reason here.  In both .edu and .gov spaces, unpatched Microsoft is a much
bigger problem than unpatched open source (unless there's been some major
tectonic plate shift and less than 90% of the boxes are Microsoft now).

The *top* reason is probably that a higher percentage of .gov machines are
on (semi-)private networks and/or behind fascist firewalls than .edu machines,
because large chunks of .gov space have a mindset of "secrecy", while large
areas of .edu space are about "sharing information".

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