You really must be referring to unadorned Darwin - not Apple's OSX commercial set.
On Friday, April 26, 2002, at 11:54 AM, William H. Magill wrote: > ... > which there is no valid reason for them to work. OS X is > incredibly secure. > It is THE MOST OUT OF THE BOX, SECURE SHIPPING UNIX today -- bar none. > I run Tru64 in C2 mode, but we have to build the system and sanitize it > "off-line" before it is secure enough to plug into a remote network. > The only open "hole" that OS X ships with is NFS. I can not say > the same > thing for HP-UX, AIX, Solaris, Tru64 or any version of Linux. Period. > > Yes, that means that some things "don't just plain work." But it > means that > I can sleep much better at night. > ... Me too - but then again I know how to make Solaris/AIX/et al secure. Besides, there are MANY things in the WinTel world that doesn't work correctly most of the time either - so I will avoid any OpSys bashing here and say that Operating Systems will be as secure as the lost of data accrues. The more valuable the data was when lost the more likely it will be better protected NEXT time. __Bill -Sx- Jones______________________________________ ....Someday I'll look back on all this and laugh... ....until they sedate me... Lead Courseware Support Analyst (Lead e-Systems Developer) FCCJ * ACID * CWS 501 W State St * Rm 229 Jacksonville, FL 32202 W: 904 / 632-3089 F: 904 / 632-3007 C: 904 / 537-3910 E: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I: http://web.fccj.edu/~wcjones/
