Re: subjective Q. - what's the most secure OS?

From: Nick Maclaren (nmm1@cus.cam.ac.uk)
Date: 06/26/02 

From: nmm1@cus.cam.ac.uk (Nick Maclaren)
Date: 26 Jun 2002 10:22:08 GMT

In article <uh4jhuomjpjqm6p0qmjl8s5glcbitjc9t5@4ax.com>,
Sami Sihvonen <ss@janiika.com> writes:
|> In article <slrnahda6g.388.news@news.jors.net>,
|> "Juergen P. Meier" <news@jors.net> wrote:
|>
|> >> Q. for all you security guys - what's the most secure OS ? Openbsd?
|>
|> > MS-DOS
|> > Impossible to break in through the Network in the default Install.
|>
|> Are you joking? My toilet seat is better, only one hole there and it
|> leaks something else than security... Make that MS-DOG machine on-line
|> before talking about security. Looks like original poster was talking
|> about network security. Post your MS-DOG machine IP-address and I can
|> hack it wide open to write silly comments to your autoexec.bat.

I think that you have missed the joke. The default installation
of MS-DOS doesn't HAVE any networking support! Now, there might
be a few device cards that cause security problems even if they
are not used and the system has no drivers for them, but that is
another matter.

Any system is secure if it is never connected to anything (such
as the power) :-)

Regards,
Nick Maclaren,
University of Cambridge Computing Service,
New Museums Site, Pembroke Street, Cambridge CB2 3QH, England.
Email: nmm1@cam.ac.uk
Tel.: +44 1223 334761 Fax: +44 1223 334679

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