I will agree that NT isn't as secure OUT OF THE BOX. But give me three hours, and it will be.
-- Drew ******************************** Visit http://www.drewncapris.net! Go! Go there now! No mention shall be made of coral or of crystal; the price of wisdom is above pearls. - Job 28:18 -----Original Message----- From: Lefkovics, William [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, November 09, 2001 4:35 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Exchange SMTP Routing If by "administering" you mean re-engineering vital components and eliminating silly potential buffer overflow possibilities etc then I'm right there with you buddy! NT is not written well enough from the ground up. You can administer it til the cows come home. Don't get me wrong, it's decent. But there are flavours of Unix written and audited line by line from the ground up with the intention of not being open to any security vulnerability. NT can't compare to that. It was written to be mass sold and user friendly. It's not just the OS, but the way applications must work atop it can also expose NT. You can make it pretty secure, no doubt. But OpenBSD for example is secure out of the box. Just my thoughts. William -----Original Message----- From: Drewski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, November 09, 2001 2:29 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Exchange SMTP Routing If you want to show me documentation for that, I'll happily read it. It won't change my opinion that NT is just as secure as UNIX, if you administer it properly. -- Drew ******************************** Visit http://www.drewncapris.net! Go! Go there now! The War on Terrorism Needs a Marshall Plan: http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=11766 -----Original Message----- From: Lathrum Matt-P55173 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, November 09, 2001 4:20 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Exchange SMTP Routing If this is true, then why does Microsoft themselves use UNIX for their SMTP firewalls? But we digress away from the charter of this list. -- Matt Lathrum General Dynamics Decision Systems When cryptography is outlawed, bayl bhgynjf jvyy unir cevinpl. -----Original Message----- From: Leblanc, Shawn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, November 09, 2001 3:08 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Exchange SMTP Routing I agree - without exception. -----Original Message----- From: Drewski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, November 09, 2001 1:44 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Exchange SMTP Routing NT Servers can be just as secure as Unix servers, if you apply the proper patches. You do apply the proper patches, don't you? -- Drew ******************************** Visit http://www.drewncapris.net! Go! Go there now! TEN THINGS YOU CAN DO TO PREVENT WAR http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=11597 List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm
