I really dislike the term "out-of-box security".  If you're an admin, or 
even a buyer of a system, out-of-box security really has little or no 
relevance at all.  I really don't think of security in degrees, or as a 
rating from 1-10, it is either secure or not secure, and if is currently 
secure, without and administration, it will soon be insecure.  Unless you 
plan on upgrading each system every day with a system that is 
"out-of-the-box secure" then there is a little relevance, but I think I 
will safely assume that is not the case.

Just my 2 cents

Mike

At 09:19 AM 3/29/2002 -0500, you wrote:
>Until  you plug them in, they appear roughly equivalent out of the box.
>
>;-)
>
>Justin Kremer wrote:
> >
> > Just curious what you all think about the new Mac OS X.  Which is more
> > secure out-of-box; Windows XP or Mac OS X?
> >
> > -Justin
>
>--
>James W. Meritt CISSP, CISA
>Booz | Allen | Hamilton
>phone: (410) 684-6566

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