Re: [Az-Geocaching] The "Most Unsecure" OS

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From: <trisha@brasher.com>
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Sent: Tuesday, January 28, 2003 9:48 AM
Subject: Re: [Az-Geocaching] The "Most Unsecure" OS


> ....huh?...
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> On Tue, 28 Jan 2003, "Mike Ingoglia" wrote:
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> This is why the Internet was pretty much founded on
> BSD based UNIX. Remember, LINUX isn't really UNIX, it's UNIX like.
> BSD based systems are tried and true and with other flavors of UNIX
> still
> account for the majority of the Web servers on the Internet. Yahoo!
> is run
> on FreeBSD servers, Hotmail (yes Microsoft) runs on FreeBSD servers
> (they're
> slowly trying to change this... bad P.R., you know), Sony Japan runs
> on FreeBSD,
> Walnut Creek (the busiest FTP site in the world) runs on FreeBSD...
> just to
> through this in, I believe Google runs on LINUX. If my numbers are
> still
> correct, an Apache web server still (although just barely) has more
> installs
> then all the other web server combined (I believe it's around 50% of
> all web
> servers run UNIX based Apache). Also, in defense of LINUX and the
> other
> open source projects one thing you have to keep in mind is in mixed
> environments
> the UNIX system is usually the one that's outside the firewall or on
> DMZ
> networks... it's pretty much out in the wind and therefore more prone
> to direct
> attacks. It is my opinion that UNIX is held to a higher standard then
> it's
> Microsoft counterparts. Although Microsoft took a huge step over
> Windows
> NT when it introduced RRAS with regards to controlling open ports,
> routing, etc
> it still has a lot of proving itself to do.
>
> All this is coming from one of the first
> MCSE's... I was Microsoft certified before the rage of becoming
> certified. Many companies out there have tried to jump on the
> bandwagon
> offering classes that basically allows you to memorize the
> questions... also,
> the tests are exponentially easier then they were originally (the
> Windows 3.1
> test was probably one of the most difficult Microsoft has made... if
> you can
> believe that!). I first became certified in 1994 so you can tell I'm
> pretty much a Microsoft focused person. UNIX has always been a hobby
> of
> mine and something I've always used for DNS, firewalls, network
> troubleshooting,
> etc. In fact, I'm building a new Apache 2.0 webserver in another
> window of
> my computer right now (and... my desktop computer is running Windows
> XP...
> although it's behind my Cisco PIX firewall with strict firewall
> security)! I'm also one of the few people that have been successful
> in getting a Microsoft webserver to be very reliable (maybe Brian
> Lafrance,
> my coworker, co-conspirator with Team Leaplab, and our database
> programmer
> might disagree :-) ). FYI: The Microsoft IIS server we run at the
> office has almost 500 websites hosted on it!!!!
>
> Mike
> Team Leaplab
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From:
> Team Tierra Buena
> To: az-geocaching@listserv.azgeocaching.com
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> Sent: Monday, January 27, 2003 6:08
> PM
> Subject: [Az-Geocaching] The "Most
> Unsecure" OS
>
> According to
> this article, it's... well, let's just say there's a penguin
> involved:
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> http://www.wininformant.com/Articles/Index.cfm?ArticleID=27428
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> The real point
> being, nobody's safe these days.
>
> Steve
> Team Tierra
> Buena
>
>
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