[Az-Geocaching] The "Most Unsecure" OS

[Mike Ingoglia]

:-)


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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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> Message
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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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