Re: Biometrics
- From: Dan <Dan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2008 20:16:00 -0700
"Daniel Petri <MVP>" wrote:
So, to make a long story short, you claim the the "Windows 9X" source code
and entire OS is far more secure than today's "Windows NT" - i.e. Vista?
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Sincerely,
Daniel Petri
MVP, Senior IT consultant, trainer
www.petri.co.il
The NT source code has much more security. The external security of Windows
Vista is especially good. The internal safety and core of 9x is safer than
the core of NT being based upon MS-DOS which is the maintenance operating
system of 98 Second Edition. What maintenance operating system does Vista
have? Please see Chris Quirke, MVP website.
http://cquirke.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!C7DAB1E724AB8C23!336.entry
I am talking about the debate that Chris Quirke, MVP talks about the safety
and security comparison. The best example I can give is to think of a major
fortress with great fortifications that is extremely hard to break through.
This major fortress represents the Windows NT source code and is especially
good right now in Windows Vista Service Pack 1 which I am using right now and
writing this post from Windows Vista Service Pack 1. Heck, I would not have
been a volunteer tester for Windows Vista on security if I did not like
Microsoft products and did not feel Windows NT was secure. For mobile
technology such as laptops I would highly suggest Windows Vista over any
other Windows when a person is traveling. However, with the proper
safeguards Windows 98 Second Edition can be made fairly secure if a user is
connected by a wired router to the Internet with anti-spyware programs such
as Spybot Search and Destroy and SpywareBlaster and using a currently
supported browser in 98 SE such as Mozilla Firefox which is currently
supported 98SE at least until December 2008 with Mozilla Firefox 2.
The problem here is that the Windows NT source code that includes Windows
2000, Windows XP and Windows Vista is meant to be managed by the IT
Professional and not by individual users. This is usually great in an office
environment that needs to limit the user's rights and grant usually the
majority of users a standard account and a few limited users an administrator
account. However, for home users such as when I am at home and not at work,
I like Windows 98 Second Edition because I enjoy playing older DOS games and
using older DOS programs that will not run in XP or Vista. In addition, if
someone does manage to break through all the external security of XP (not
sure about Vista since it is so new and indeed more secure than XP) then the
hacker(s) can wreck havoc on the network. This is what happened at my old
workplace when I went away on vacation during the summer and the higher-ups
decided it was time to get rid of Windows 98 Second Edition for good and only
have Windows XP Professional computers at my workplace.
Apparently, during the summer someone hacked the network and whether it was
an inside job (which I now suspect) or an outside job the individual(s) knew
their stuff really well. They undid all my work that took me a full year to
implement and bring the workplace from really bad computer problems to a well
functioning network and undid it in a matter of 3 months while I was gone.
If you have not figured it out yet, it was indeed a school that according to
the main computer network administrator Stephanie she said that former
individual(s) had left the school prior and destroyed the computer network
because these individual(s) were mad at the school and took their vengeance
on the computer network since they did not want to physically hurt the
children but it certainly hurt the children's ability to learn which really
makes me annoyed. Perhaps these individual(s) still had some prior access
that had not been revoked and were able to wreck havoc on the network during
the summer and it seems like they may have had to get on site and what better
opportunity while the main computer guy was out of the city.
However, if the few Windows 98 Second Edition machines had not been phased
out that summer then I would have been able to lean back upon those machines
since they were not accessible via the general school network and indeed did
not rely upon remote access which can be problematic when turned on as it was
with Windows XP Professional and with the Public School Network. I am
deliberately being vague about the specifics because this may end up being a
legal issue. In addition, Chris Quirke, MVP talks about the problem that
Windows Vista has because it lacks a true maintenance operating system like
MS-DOS in 98 Second Edition which had easy access to MS-DOS and good
backwards compatibility which Windows ME lacked. Windows ME looked good and
worked okay and did have better general USB support than 98SE but it really
was a joke and crippled operating system in my opinion since it lacked so
much and broke so easily. Finally, this proves the importance of the 9x
source code for the safety such as using one 98 Second Edition computer for
backup of the workplace that only one trusted individual who has been with
the company for many years is allowed to access. I have heard from my friend
John about how some businesses in New York State have used a 98 Second
Edition machine in the past as a gateway to the computer network which sounds
like a really smart idea. Windows 98 Second Edition also allowed consumers
who want to play old games to play the older games and individuals like
myself to work in a true text based interface and do away with the
limitations of a GUI interface. Just my two cents for what it is worth.
.
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