Nicely ranted!
E On Tue, 9 Oct 2001, Sach Jobb wrote: > This is yet another article written by someone that is, and always has > been an M$ user and has NO experience using *nix in any sort of a > practical or production manor at all. > > I know this from the 4th paragraph, which looks like it's the first > supporting argument after Mr. Mullen's thesis. > > <snip> > Not that IIS hasn't had its share of issues; it certainly has. But so has > everything else out there. Every operating system and every Web server > application has had security holes, and they will have them in the > future. > </snip> > > Now if memory serves me right: > > Remote root exploits in apache since it's creation: 1 (1.2.x, remember?) > Remote root exploits in IIS in the last year: 3? 4? > > Number of virus targeted at apache since it's creation: 0 > Number of virus targeted at IIS sine it's creation: n > > > > 'One thing is for sure: If you've got an admin that can't secure a > > Microsoft Web server, then your chances of having them secure a Solaris > > installation will be slim.' > > Okay, no one is going to disagree with this, but if you want a secure > system there is a lot more to it then just the admin. The key point being > that if it's open source system, YOU CAN DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT. If you are > using M$, the best you can do is pray for a quick patch that won't break > things even more than the virus did. It's out of your control. > > Remember service pack 2, NT 4.0? It was the hotfix for the horrible errors > they made in service pack 1, but they broke even more than the fixed. > > What's the quote from "Ghost World"? "It was so bad, that it was funny > again, and then it wasn't." > > Cheers, > sach > > > On Tue, 9 Oct 2001, Lorin wrote: > > > http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/22132.html > > > > Critical to gartner groups advisory to switch away from M$ products. I'm > > not sure i agree with most of his points about how it doesn't matter that > > much which system you use, but the argument towards the end was > > interesting: > > > > 'One thing is for sure: If you've got an admin that can't secure a > > Microsoft Web server, then your chances of having them secure a Solaris > > installation will be slim.' > > > > -Lkb > > > > > > -- Erik Curiel Sometime Web Engineer/Almost Philosopher "O, little rose-tree, bloom! Summer is nearly over. The dahlias bleed, The phlox is seed, Nothing is left of the clover. And the path of the poppy no one knows--- I would blossom if I were a rose." ---Edna St. Vincent Millay "Three Songs from 'The Lamp and the Bell'"
