Odd, Since M$ seems to make every effort to minimize Linux. http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/linuxunix/0,39020390,39238443,00.htm
----- Original Message ----- From: "Mathew Branyon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <General at brlug.net> Sent: Tuesday, January 31, 2006 11:40 AM Subject: Re: [brlug-general] M$ Update > You can have all the firewalls, software or hardware (although I am not > sure how multiple firewalls would help much), but, in the true sense of > the word, any service you have that's publicly available to the internet > is vulnerable. If you connect to any service you are vulnerable. > There are precautions you can take of course, to make your systems less > vulnerable, but its at the cost of the information you make available, > and that which you wish to access on the net. Its like using cars > versus the pollution that they cause. > > So your friend is right, but I think he made it sound a bit worse than > it really is. If you follow safe internet usage guidelines, you should > be fine. > > About Microsoft having GNU/Linux, I am not surprised. I'd be surprised > if they didn't, for several reasons: Sun Tzu said that the best way to > defeat your enemy is to know your enemy; By using GNU/Linux, Microsoft > can put together a stable, modern, operating system with almost no > development cost. Ask your friend about some of the other things that > Microsoft spends money researching. I guarantee that > GNU/Linux/Microsoft is not the strangest. > > --mat > > On Tue, 2006-01-31 at 09:21 -0600, Common Sense wrote: >> Good Morning All, >> >> No, I'm not starting an M$ bashing thread. I'm simply telling what I >> just learned this week. >> >> I have a friend in S'port who I worked with at the old Western >> Electric Telephone Mfg plant and now is some District head for M$, >> David Huckabee. >> >> David meets with "Mr. Bill" and has 'conference calls' regularly with >> M$ staffers. David tells me that M$ has a working version of Linux >> that they wish to launch. Isn't that a hoot? Imatation is the best >> sort of flattery, LOL! >> >> David also mentioned, that there are 'worms' out there for Linux and >> that even Apache servers have been attacked. If this is so, then no >> one is safe, not WIN, not Apple, not even our Linux. According to >> him, he has a hardware firewall, a couple of software firewalls, etc >> and he admits his server set-up at home is still vunerable. I've >> never know David to lie to me and I do know he does work for M$. So, >> could we all be vunerable now? I guess the only solution is to >> disconnect from on-line. :-(. >> >> Respectfully, >> >> "Buck"/K5-MKE >> _______________________________________________ >> General mailing list >> General at brlug.net >> http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > General at brlug.net > http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net
