If you fire up Metasploit you will find many known exploits for NT. -Dave Walton
On Jun 9, 2012, at 9:38 AM, John Reames <jwrea...@comcast.net> wrote: > And the NSA has contributed a security framework for it in the past. > > Two points: > There is no real security in obscurity. > Unix learned lessons years ago about buffer overflows and unchecked > parameters in operations involving escalation of privileges. > > On the second point, many shops moved from UNIX to windows NT because of MS > marketing pointing out that NT did NOT have those bugs (which plagued UNIXes > back then) and because it was "easier to administer". > > The question is whether that is still the case. > > -- > John W Reames > jream...@verizon.net > Home: +14106646986 > Mobile: +14437915905 > > On Jun 8, 2012, at 23:10, Rick Knoble <rickkno...@hotmail.com> wrote: > >> On Jun 8, 2012, at 10:00 PM, "Gerry Archer" <arche...@embarqmail.com> wrote: >> >>> After a malware attack on the Air Force's Windows-based drone-control >>> system last year, there has been a wholesale move to Linux for security >>> reasons. >> >> >> Which sucks because now the Chinese, Russians, and anyone else that writes >> virii will be coding for Linux now. >> Great. >> >> Rick >> Sent from my iPhone >> >> _______________________________________ >> http://www.okiebenz.com >> For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com >> To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ >> >> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: >> http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
