[Az-Geocaching] The "Most Unsecure" OS

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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 
  
  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:
   
  http://www.wininformant.com/Articles/Index.cfm?ArticleID=27428
   
  The real point 
  being, nobody's safe these days.
   
  Steve
  Team Tierra 
  Buena


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