On Fri, Aug 15, 2003, Joel Hammer wrote: >There is some negative kickback here in Maryland over the MVA's going >down. Other govt sites were fine because they patched their computers. > >The obvious question is: Why didn' the MVA patch? Their answer so far is >they didn't know about the patch. As a critic says, this is like not knowing >the World Series is going on.
A more obvious question is why they're running mission-critical applications on Windows in the first place! It's not like any of this is surprising to anybody with a clue. When we started selling our InterRack(rg) systems in 1994, we told people that they were only available using Unix because there was no way to have any security with Windows. We turned down business when people insisted on a Windows solution. Nothing has happened in the last nine years to make me change my mind. Even though Windows theoretically has some security with NT/2000/XP, it's hard to see any reduction in the number of worms that attack it. Bill -- INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC UUCP: camco!bill PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way FAX: (206) 232-9186 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820; (206) 236-1676 URL: http://www.celestial.com/ When I hear a man applauded by the mob I always feel a pang of pity for him. All he has to do to be hissed is to live long enough. -- H.L. Mencken, ``Minority Report'' _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
