> and are not working their a**es off making our e-gold > accounts opaque to hackers. I know of one person > who had I5K removed from his account, and just > this week two people I know have had attempts at > hacking their e-gold accounts, This is one major reason why the system should be on OpenBSD (or FreeBSD or Linux). Basically there is a pot of gold 'protected' by a windoze based system. Hello? microsoft is a great marketing company and a crappy software company. Some costs associated with M$ products compared to OpenBSD: - 10 times the down time based on mainly independent studies - Constant bug and security fixes that take a lot of time to keep on top of - and you need to be fast because crackers can act fast when new security problems are found. - Pay a lot for software that is poorer quality then free software. You say, "Well, we can make it work", "It is good enough", etc. Making it work means higher costs and more time spent coddling a junky system. Wouldn't you rather spend your time doing something fun and useful? Now if these cracker stories are true, how much time and effort will it take fix them? Lots. When will they stop? Never. How are you going to manage them? Keep building a great idea on a dung heap or rebuild the foundation to be as solid as possible. In case I am not being clear: Choosing M$ products is crippling your company in terms of overhead cost, time misspent and REPUTATION. What about liability? There is abundant evidence that M$ is the most insecure of current OS's. By sticking with them you might be sued for not fulfilling your fiduciary responsibilities. The costs, potential costs and shear headache involved just make it insane to not use unix. It is unbelievable! http://www.openbsd.org/ "secure by default" --- You are currently subscribed to e-gold-list as: [email protected] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
