Re: controversial paper

From: Tom St Denis (tomstdenis_at_iahu.ca)
Date: 09/27/03 

Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2003 11:43:08 GMT

"Douglas A. Gwyn" <DAGwyn@null.net> wrote in message
news:W-2cnchwdZCiguiiU-KYuQ@comcast.com...
> Tom St Denis wrote:
> > This is a completely different and debatable point.
>
> Actually it was a point in the paper you neglected to read.

Obviously you've never read slashdot before. The paper was essentially a
ripoff.

> Tom, I work in a group that is highly concerned with network
> security issues. The paper is on target, and your amateur
> criticism is very ignorant. When you don't know much about
> a subject you should remain silent.

What amateur criticism? They basically bitched that windows is so prevalent
and offered no solution. It's a rant!

Making a company use multiple operating systems won't cure the fundamental
problem, lack of knowledge on the part of the sysadmins. I mean I could run
unpatched Win2K with IIS and say GNU/Linux [say from 2001] running unpatched
apache with mod_ssl, etc, etc. In this case I would be "running multiple
distinct OSes" and still get rooted in a manner of minutes. What's your [or
their] point?

Oh yeah, and "I know you are but what am I!"

Tom