Hold on a second!
You mean to say that e-god runs on windows?
The servers are in Florida and this is how they
protect 46,000 oz of gold?
What is Standard Reserve run on?
What is Metal Savings run on?
--- Jeff Fitzmyers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > 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"
>
>
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