On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 7:22 AM, Yogesh Girikumar <[email protected]> wrote: > > How would you all like to contribute to an open letter asking the Union Home > Ministry, The National informatics agency, and the like to start using open > source instead of proprietary software? It's a shame that most sites > including those of National investigation agency, National security guards ( > both were hacked very recently ), etc still use IIS. Seriously, IIS? And > heaven knows why there was data in those servers that could be "siphoned > off". So I was thinking writing an open letter to those douc***ags in plain > english on what this is all about and how and why they should rethink about > using proprietary software that rely on security by obscurity. > > Please share your views.
My PoV. 1. No software is bug free. 2. There is no substitute for competent System/Network Admins, DBAs, Pen testing etc. irrespective of the OS platform. 3. The org must have policies w.r.t to system (hw and sw) maintenance. Points 2 and 3 were severely lacking in the DR situations that I have been involved in, which BTW were Unix/Linux servers. IMO, you should make a case for points 2 and 3 rather than making a case against any specific product. My two cents. -- Arun Khan A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail? _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
