Stephen Kuhn said: > Had to, HAD to pass this on - you'd reckon that the US government > agencies would have THOUGHT enough after the "Slapper" hit the SQL > servers world-wide...and since most agencies are migrating their > webservers to either unix or linux...gads - how dumb... > > http://www.msnbc.com/news/886524.asp?0si=-&cp1=1
Personall I didn't think this was very funny at all. And on the contrary most federal agencies are not migrating to Linux or Unix. While some agencies have received waivers to migrate from Windows to Linux or Unix in specific situations, the vast majority of governmental systems continue and will remain on Windows. But then those agencies with waivers are still running Windows on the desktop, the waivers are for things like web and mail servers. The US Navy is in the midst of spending $6 billion dollars on migrating the entire shore-based enterprise to Windows 2000 for instance (I'm involved in that process unfortunately). But I agree that MS security really sucks. While I have to use Windows here at work (Military), I don't use it at home. I'm all Linux (Mandrake as a matter of fact) and my four servers run Mandrake linux as well. Part of the problem is that security of the enterprises (each branch has there own) is handled in a hap hazard approach because they were designed piece-meal. The military, and the rest of the federal government, as a whole is working toward correcting that problem but it's certainly not going to happen over night. But this type of hacking is not funny, particularly now when our forces are getting ready to head into harms way. The server(s) that were hacked have not been identified as far as I've been able to tell, but one can only hope it or they, weren't any really important system. -- Anthony Abby http://www.comicsnsuch | Comic Community News http://www.aplusdata.com | System Consultation Web Development
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