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Re: WANTED: ISPs with DDoS defense solutions
From: "Petri Helenius" <pete () he iki fi>
Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2003 21:01:26 +0300
If FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, RedHat, Debian, SuSE were packaged and and sold in stores, how would this be any different? Oh wait, They are packaged and sold in stores!
Just by comparing the OpenBSD security track record to the one of any Windows release would dismiss your point.
People find remote exploitable flaws in the aforementioned OSes during during their pre-release, release, after-release, alpha, beta, gamma, delta force, and nuclear reactor stages.
It´s not black and white, while no OS is perfect, there are measurable differences on how much they are exploited. Diversity would make trojan/virus writers job harder. So diversity is good.
No one's perfect, not ISPs, not users, not software vendors, not you. So please stop telling us about the lifestyle on planet Utopia.
So by telling people to shut up you expect to make the world more secure? Right :) Pete
Current thread:
- Re: WANTED: ISPs with DDoS defense solutions, (continued)
- Re: WANTED: ISPs with DDoS defense solutions Paul Vixie (Jul 30)
- Re: WANTED: ISPs with DDoS defense solutions Petri Helenius (Jul 30)
- Re: WANTED: ISPs with DDoS defense solutions Vadim Antonov (Jul 31)
- Re: WANTED: ISPs with DDoS defense solutions Petri Helenius (Jul 31)
- Re: WANTED: ISPs with DDoS defense solutions Stephen J. Wilcox (Jul 31)
- Re: WANTED: ISPs with DDoS defense solutions Paul Vixie (Jul 31)
- Re: WANTED: ISPs with DDoS defense solutions Paul Vixie (Jul 31)
- Re: WANTED: ISPs with DDoS defense solutions Dave Israel (Jul 31)
- Re: WANTED: ISPs with DDoS defense solutions Vadim Antonov (Jul 31)
- Re: WANTED: ISPs with DDoS defense solutions Omachonu Ogali (Jul 31)
- Re: WANTED: ISPs with DDoS defense solutions Petri Helenius (Jul 31)
- Re: WANTED: ISPs with DDoS defense solutions Omachonu Ogali (Jul 31)
- Re: WANTED: ISPs with DDoS defense solutions Joel Jaeggli (Jul 31)
- Re: WANTED: ISPs with DDoS defense solutions Omachonu Ogali (Jul 30)
- Re: WANTED: ISPs with DDoS defense solutions Gary E. Miller (Jul 30)
- Re: WANTED: ISPs with DDoS defense solutions Omachonu Ogali (Jul 31)
- RE: WANTED: ISPs with DDoS defense solutions Rafi Sadowsky (Jul 31)