RE: [Full-Disclosure] Re: Pudent default security - Was: CyberInsecurity: The cost of Monopoly

From: Michal Zalewski (lcamtuf_at_coredump.cx)
Date: 09/30/03

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    To: Steve Wray <steve.wray@paradise.net.nz>
Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2003 11:05:12 +0200 (CEST)

    On Tue, 30 Sep 2003, Steve Wray wrote:

    > There is if you don't use a windowing operating system; this is
    > precisely what my team is doing for a very large collection of
    > firewalled boxes, remotely administered and their forewall
    > configurations all maintained and audited by remote control and en masse
    > to boot.

    Oh please... We are talking about desktop environments and LAN "blob
    networks"... and Windows is on almost every desktop. If you work for a
    company that either never used this system, or could easily migrate to
    another system that works better for them, consider yourself very lucky.

    In such a case, you do have powerful remote control, backup, auditing and
    maintenance tools, and it's easy to come up with a solution that suits you
    best. On Windows, however, it takes some serious work to do the same, and
    it's often cheaper to buy a product that has the same functionality and a
    nice GUI. 

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