Re: firewall securing outgoing traffic?

From: Alexander (aldem-news@news.aldem.net)
Date: 02/05/02 

From: "Alexander" <aldem-news@news.aldem.net>
Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2002 07:52:40 +0100

"Bruno Wolff III" <bruno@cerberus.csd.uwm.edu> wrote:

> You need to be more specific about what you mean by "windows". W95/W98
> have no effective security. The NT based systems do have real security,
> but I don't think it could be characterized as a lot better than Linux.

  Yes, sure I mean NT/2K/XP. But, it's security model _is_ lot better than
  in Linux (and other UNIX based systems). Why - just compare SELinux and
  its security model to NT/2K model - you will find those very similar.

/Al

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