I read a very informative book recently from O'Reilly named, "Practical UNIX and Internet Security". It's one of the definitive works apparently, and was very well written. Anyway, the thing that struck me the most about the position of the authors was that in the UNIX isn't always the best choice in terms of security. (No surprise there.) For example, they advocated the use of Mac's as web-servers. In addition, the authors practically flamed the vendors in regards to their lack of urgency in updating system tools with patches against known problems. (The tools that came out as the least likely to break or crash were the GNU tools naturally.) Interesting book. Anyone interested in security should pick it up, or if you are a member of BRLUG, check it out of our LUG library. Regards, Dustin
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