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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.50.0402272211030.13634-100000@server.dimick.net>
From: denis at dimick.net (Denis Dimick)
Subject: Re: Knocking Microsoft
Linux/Unix just has to be more sercure then Windows..;)
Also as for lame admins.. Yes there are some when it comes to unix/Linux..
However, when the base OS is more secure then Windows it's not as painful
to the rest of us..
-Denis
On Fri, 27 Feb 2004, James F. Wilkus wrote:
>
> > and now they try to make it secure. UNIX was made to be secure, and
> > now they are adding colours.
>
> This is not true. UNIX was not made to be secure. Any UNIX security
> history book will tell you that.
>
> Just because you run UNIX does not make you immune to attacks. Linux,
> with it's world domination kick, is recruiting more and more windows
> admins to it's ranks. You think that these same windows, now linux,
> admins are going to do a better job at securing their systems? These
> same admins who can not apply patches before the next major worm
> strikes?
>
> apt-get update is easy, so is clicking on windows update...
>
> I think people are doing a disservice by claiming that linux is
> something it is not, or more accurately, generalizing all UNIX's to be
> secure.
>
>
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