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The Reality of Perception
Tim Mullen, 2003-04-07

A new poll finds that seventy-seven percent of security professionals believe Microsoft products are insecure. But a closer look at the survey tells a far more interesting story.

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The Reality of Perception 2003-04-07
Anonymous (6 replies)
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Bill Hey <bill.hey@nospam.dsia.com>
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Peter
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R Mortimer
It's not just market share 2003-04-08
Anonymous
Re: AnonymousPeon 2003-04-08
Just a point
Sorry, that's crap 2003-04-08
Anonymous (1 replies)
The Reality of Perception 2003-04-07
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The Reality of Perception - heh 2003-04-07
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Anonymous (1 replies)
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anonybori
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Scott Sorrentino (1 replies)
Stupid unstable patches 2003-04-08
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The reality of your techs 2003-04-07
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My look on things 2003-04-08
DC0 (1 replies)
My look on things 2003-04-10
Anonymous
It's easy Tim - listen up! 2003-04-08
Anonymous
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blacklight
The Reality of dumb people - "I see dumb people". 2003-04-09
Anonymous (8 replies)
The Reality of dumb people - "I see dumb people". 2003-04-09
Anonymous
You think UNIX doesn't have those settings??

Just to name a few

net.ipv4.ip_forward = 1
net.ipv4.conf.all.rp_filter = 0 # 0 for IPSEC
kernel.sysrq = 0
net.ipv4.icmp_echo_ignore_all = 1
net.ipv4.icmp_ignore_broadcasts = 1
net.ipv4.icmp_ignore_bogus_error_responses = 1
net.ipv4.tcp_keepalive_time = 1800
net.ipv4.tcp_window_scaling = 0
net.ipv4.tcp_syncookies = 1
net.ipv4.conf.all.accept_source_route = 0
net.ipv4.conf.all.accept_redirects = 0
net.ipv4.conf.all.log_martians = 0
net.ipv4.ip_always_defrag = 1
net.ipv4.tcp_sack = 0
net.ipv4.tcp_timestamps = 0
net.ipv4.tcp_fin_timeout = 30
net.ipv4.ip_local_port_range = 32768 61000
vm.bdflush = 100 1200 128 512 15 5000 500 1884 2




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dont blame MS-blame these stupid poeple 2003-04-10
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