Secure by Default

Secure by Default
Tim Mullen, 2003-04-27

With Windows Server 2003, Microsoft has finally produced an operating system that isn't begging to be hacked on the first boot.

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Secure by Default - oh boy, here we go again. 2003-04-28
Anonymous

Secure by Default - READ BEFORE YOU POST. 2003-04-28
Anonymous (2 replies)

Secure by Default - READ BEFORE YOU POST. 2003-04-28
Anonymous (1 replies)

Secure by Default - READ BEFORE YOU POST. 2003-04-29
Anonymous (2 replies)

Yawn. Another "I'm more geeky than you" pissing contest. (N/T) 2003-04-30
Anonymous

Secure by Default - READ BEFORE YOU POST. 2003-04-30
Anonymous (2 replies)

Secure by Default - READ BEFORE YOU POST. 2003-05-01
Anonymous (3 replies)

Secure by Default - READ BEFORE YOU POST. 2003-05-02
Anonymous

Secure by Default - READ BEFORE YOU POST. 2003-05-02
Penguinisto (1 replies)

Secure by Default - Learn something (before you reply again). 2003-05-06
Anonymous (1 replies)

Oh puh-leeze - you have to resort to sematics games? 2003-05-08
Penguinisto

Secure by Default - READ BEFORE YOU POST. 2003-05-03
Anonymous

Sure, you can rattle down a list of strange-sounding things you have to do to a Windows machine to make it secure. So what? Any Unix geek (or VMS fanatic, or OS/390 hand, or...) can rattle down a similar list leaving you wondering what they are talking about. Good for you (and your company) you know your Win2k3 stuff by heart.

The big trouble has allways been the "one size fits all", "managing a machine/network/firewall/... is dead simple, just point & click", "features over anything else" that has been the uniform ranting of many companies, MS over all of them (because they concentrated more on the unwashed masses). Now you have to battle not only the threats, but also the people around you that consider you grossly incompetent because "computing is _so_ easy"...

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Secure by Default - READ BEFORE YOU POST. 2003-05-06
Anonymous

Secure by Default - READ BEFORE YOU POST. 2003-04-30
Anonymous

Secure by Default, Insecure by Birth 2003-04-28
Drek Software Inc. (2 replies)

Secure by Default, Insecure by Birth 2003-04-28
Anonymous

Secure by Default, Insecure by Birth 2003-05-03
Anonymous (2 replies)

Secure by Default, Insecure by Birth 2003-05-05
Anonymous

Secure by Default, Insecure by Birth 2003-05-06
Anonymous

Secure by Default 2003-04-28
alexbal

Secure by Default 2003-04-28
Anonymous

Secure by Default 2003-04-28
xenophi1e <oliver.lavery@sympatico.ca> (1 replies)

It's partly real, but partly a PR thing 2003-04-30
Anonymous

Well, I'll give you this much, Timster... 2003-04-28
Penguinisto (4 replies)