Re: OS to know.

From: Jonathan Pauli (jpauli_at_istreamimaging.com)
Date: 10/18/05

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To: Raoul Armfield <armfield@amnh.org>

    This is some serious Troll Bait put out by curtis I think.
    I'm hoping most of the infrastructure Curtis mentioned isn't on the
    public Internet. I know a grad student who trained at a Navy base in
    Florida for a summer in info security. She says they use custom hacked
    Unix variants- never a stock kernel. They use windows boxes for desktop
    apps a lot- but what did you expect? In this day I suspect we are
    terrorists automagically for merely being on a mailing list in which
    someone thinks about mentioning enumerating and focusing on operating
    systems .mil uses- so who wants to think about trying to verify this?

    Raoul Armfield wrote:

    > Steven Kalcevich wrote:
    >
    >> I can see Cyberguard Firewall Appliance an issue for telling anyone
    >> the rest is standard, i mean they arent running windows 3.11 for
    >> workgroups :) or custom OS Marine XP for workstations for general
    >> work. be glad he didnt say DOS :)
    >>
    >
    > but then again, now a hacker knows that they can focus on RH Ent,
    > Solaris or BSD, They can also concentrate vulnerabilities in the
    > routers because they have the specific IOS release they are running so
    > they. remember the first step is enumeration and Curtis made that
    > all the easier. Also this post is not only in the mailboxes of the
    > subscribers but freely available on the net in the archives.
    >
    > Raoul
    >
    >> Regards
    >>
    >> Steve Kalcevich
    >>
    >> xyberpix wrote:
    >>
    >>> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
    >>> Hash: SHA1
    >>>
    >>> Curtis,
    >>>
    >>> You're joking right?????
    >>> Are you allowed to give all that info out?
    >>>
    >>> xyberpix
    >>>
    >>> On 13 Oct 2005, at 00:57, Curtis LaMasters wrote:
    >>>
    >>>> I'm a Systems Administrator in the Marine Coprs so I can give you
    >>>> insigt on the military section of the government. We are currently
    >>>> running Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Windows XP, Windows 2000 as our
    >>>> typical server and desktop operating systems. You will see some
    >>>> instances of Red Hat Enterprise, Solaris, and BSD. Our current
    >>>> firewall choice is the Cyberguard Firewall Appliance. As for routers
    >>>> and switches we are 100 percent Cisco IOS. The current standardized
    >>>> os is 12.3x. Hope that helps.
    >>>>
    >>>> Curtis
    >>>>
    >>>> On 10/11/05, John Williams <ibmros@hotmail.com> wrote:
    >>>>
    >>>>> I am a graduate student at George Mason University obtaining my MS in
    >>>>> Information Security and Assurance. What operating system is used
    >>>>> more for
    >>>>> security administration in the private sector versus the
    >>>>> government sector?
    >>>>> Pretty much I would like to know what operating system I should
    >>>>> focus on if
    >>>>> I wanted to pursue a government career in security or if I wanted
    >>>>> to purse a
    >>>>> career in the private sector. Thanks.
    >>>>>
    >>>>>
    >>>>> Mark Jacobs
    >>>>>
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    >>>>
    >>>>
    >>>> --
    >>>> Curtis LaMasters
    >>>>
    >>>> "Life is hard, but It's harder when your stupid"
    >>>
    >>>
    >>>
    >>
    >>
    >
    >

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