Re: DDOS attack Microsoft

From: Alan Connor (alanconnor_at_earthlink.net)
Date: 09/08/03 

Date: Mon, 08 Sep 2003 04:43:06 GMT

On Mon, 08 Sep 2003 04:14:21 GMT, User <User@hotmail.com> wrote:
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> "Alan Connor" <alanconnor@earthlink.net> wrote in message
> news:aDS6b.3063$PE6.2083@newsread3.news.pas.earthlink.net...
>> On Mon, 8 Sep 2003 10:47:37 +1200, Max Burke <mlvburke@%$%#> wrote:
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>> >> Alan Connor scribbled:
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>> >>> On Sun, 07 Sep 2003 15:02:56 GMT, Leythos <void@nowhere.com> wrote:
>> >>> Linux is no more secure than Windows, it's just less of a target and
>> >>> has less exposure to the people that want to take down MS.
>> >>> The problem is not MS, it's the way people use the product and the
>> >>> complete ignorance of it's users/installers. We've been installing
>> >>> Windows in industrial and office locations for more than 10 years
>> >>> without a single instance of a virus or compromise in any station.
>> >>> It's all in knowing how to secure your OS, even if it's Linux, SCO,
>> >>> AIX, OS/2, Windows, etc...
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>> >> The above is, simply, garbage.
>> >> UNIX-like OSs were created to do real work in the real world.
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>> > No it isn't.....
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>> Yes it is. I know LOTS of people who run linux, and they never have any
>> problems.
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>> I know lots of people that run M$ and they are ALWAYS having problems.
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>> Sorry, but I trust the evidence of my experience over any alleged evidence
>> provided by a M$ weenie.
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>> M$ users are to computers what Bush it to terrorism:
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>> Their take on the subject is worthless.
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> This kind of comment only demonstrates you perceptions and biases. Your ego
> at your ability is more than a match for windows users. Deriding others
> does not prove your point.
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The real world proves my point. See below.

> Tell me what is inherent in the security model used in Linux that makes it
> so much better than windows NT, 2000 etc
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Don't need to. I judge from experience and observation.

M$ users are ALWAYS having security problems, and *nix users rarely have
them.

No rational person needs to know more than that.

Are YOU rational?

Alan C 

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