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Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> Students become more insecure as hackers go to colleges
>
> http://www.azcentral.com/business/articles/0605hackers05-ON.html
>
> Notice the ill use of the word "hackers". Also, the article does not mention
> "Windows" _even once_, e.g.:
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
>| In April, the University of Texas discovered illegal access to 197,000
>| Social Security numbers of students, alumni and employees. Ohio
>| University confirmed its third security breach since April, together
>| compromising 360,000 personal records and a number of patented data
>| and intellectual property files.
> `----
>
> These servers ran Windows and were pwned for _over a year_, without anybody
> realising it.
When are the admins going to understand? Windows is just plain insecure,
it doesn't matter how hard you try, virus-guarding is always after the
fact, trojan spotting is always after the fact. Relying on a company who
keep the internals of your key tools secret, but design them so badly
that a persistent teenager can crack them open more or less to order,
then there's something deeply wrong with your model.
Linux - when security is required, not just talked about.
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| Mark Kent -- mark at ellandroad dot demon dot co dot uk |
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