hi, all you FLOSS guys out there, http://www.themalaysianinsider.com/malaysia/article/1-malaysia-email-provider-tricubes-at-risk-of-delisting/
the above article "Tricubes Bhd’s RM50 million contract to develop the 1 Malaysia email service could be the financial lifeline of the information technology firm which is at risk of being delisted..." The 1 Malaysia Mail Server is meant to provide secure email services to Malaysians for their dealings with the government, and to counter the fact that a lot of the free email accounts are hosted on servers outside of Malaysia, and hence expose the data.... 50M to 'develop' a 'secure' email server for Malaysians to use?? And they are going to use MS technology to do it ??! <quote> The Malaysia Insider understands that the 1 Malaysia email service will be using software from Microsoft, the company that now owns the free Hotmail account service that has been eclipsed by another free email provider, Google Inc. </quote> <quote> The 1 Malaysia email service is part of Najib’s Economic Transformation Programme (ETP) to achieve developed nation status by 2020. He said today the RM50 million investment will have a gross national income (GNI) impact of RM39 million up to 2015 and will enhance delivery of public services. </quote> Well, well, well..... something funny is going on. There are perfectly good FLOSS email software, crypto tools etc... and we (among OSDC) certainly have the manpower & skills to implement and deploy such solutions. Even if a 'bunch of FLOSS' developers cannot do so immediately, giving funding to the community will allow them to build the skills and knowledge within 1 year, to do so; and have that knowledge shared and benefiting a larger community rather than 1 single company! And can we do this with 1m, no problem! Even if you spend another 1-5m for HW ( 1m will buy about 160 or 4 racks full of 1u servers, which is enough to build a decent cloud...), and even if we DOUBLE all those numbers, that figure won't go anywhere near 50m! A quick look at their website, <http://www.tricubes.com> shows they are using IIS-6.0, not exactly a very secure option. A quick google found this bit: http://cyberinsecure.com/microsoft-iis6-vulnerability-exposes-websites-sensitive-files-and-passwords/ <quote> Microsoft IIS6 Vulnerability Exposes Website’s Sensitive Files And Passwords Security experts are urging administrators using Microsoft’s Internet Information Services version 6 to exercise extreme care following the discovery that the popular web server is vulnerable to a simple attack that exposes password-protected files and folders. ... </quote> and they have a shopping cart running on the site, on IIS 6.0?, I hope not. Would you trust your data with MS?? I won't. What do the rest of you guys say? IIS 6.0 -- #------- regds, Boh Heong, Yap -- To unsubscribe from and detail about this group http://portal.mosc.my/osdc-my-mailing-list-information MOSC2011 http://fb.me/mosc2011 and http://www.mosc.my/
