Re: Secure and Reliable?

From: Slade Wilson (x@x.com)
Date: 08/15/02 

From: Slade Wilson <x@x.com>
Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2002 18:21:13 -0700

On Thu, 15 Aug 2002 01:17:45 GMT, alun@texis.com (Alun Jones) decreed the
following edict:

>In article <9537084f.0208141425.5e05f32c@posting.google.com>,
>info@translation3000.com (Advanced International Translations) wrote:
>>Is it just "a common sense" or do other platforms like Linux are so
>>bullet-proof, like for instance, all their browsers have something
>>like these "tunnels" I am talking about? I am not pro-Microsoft or
>>anti-Microsoft but it seems that non-Microsoft products regarded as
>>some kind of "panacea" from all problems.
>
>Partly it's because these programs have been looked at with security in mind
>more than Microsoft code, but there's a fair amount to which popularity
>contributes. Let's say you're Fred Q Hacker, and you want to brag to your
>friends about the latest really cool thing you've done. What are you going to
>target, an operating system that is on 90% of all computers, and mostly
>administered by people who can't spell computer, or an operating system that's
>installed on substantially fewer machines, and whose administrators may very
>well have custom modifications into the kernel code?
>
>Microsoft products are more secure now than they have ever been, to the point
>now that a well-trained and attentive administrator with a keen eye to
>securing his system should not have any more trouble securing his system than
>a similarly well-qualified administrator on most other platforms.
>
>Alun.
>~~~~
>
>[Please don't email posters, if a Usenet response is appropriate.]

Well put.

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Slade Wilson
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