Re: Microsoft Can't Win.

From: TD - Sales International Holland B.V. (td@salesint.com)
Date: 10/08/01 

From: "TD - Sales International Holland B.V." <td@salesint.com>
To: "Turner, Keith" <TurnerL@tea-emh1.army.mil>
Subject: Re: Microsoft Can't Win.
Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2001 22:36:51 +0200
Message-Id: <0110082236510E.00303@linux-testbank>

Personally I rather see the services more secure..... A firewall only stops
traffic to services, services that are allowed thru the firewall get 0
protection from it. In other words, dump the firewall and set those resources
on securing IIS etc. I saw a line on this list once, don't remember it
exactly but it was in the lines of, the need for a firewall only says
something about the insecureness of the services behind it.

regards

On Friday 05 October 2001 18:02, you wrote:
> I'm sitting here eating my lunch and reading email/websites. I stopped
> reading through the email (security related mailing lists mostly) when I
> hit several of the "Microsoft sucks, they are as secure as a child's
> playground" type messages. So, I minimized email and opened a web browser.
> Pointed it to a news portal and started reading. Came across this - ' The
> big bad Microsoft is trying to use their monopoly powers to crush the
> competition in the security market' in reference to xp's built-in firewall
> and encryption system.
> People yell at them for not adding security features to their products
> but then scream MONOPOLY when they do add security features.
>
> What gives?
>
> Keith
> (I feel better now)

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