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Comparing the state of security in 1994 versus 2004, has anything really changed over the course of ten long years?
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Security, 1994-2004: Then And Now
, 2004-10-20 Comparing the state of security in 1994 versus 2004, has anything really changed over the course of ten long years?
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It was mentioned in the article that in 1994 the majority of the discussions on Bugtraq were UNIX-based, specifically SunOS/Solaris. Aside from the obvious market dominance, there was a little more behind the prevelance of Sun stuff.
When the mailing list started in 1991 as a public full-disclosure list, (as a response to previous invite-only lists like zardoz and core), it was named after the Sun internal bug tracking database "Bugtraq" that had been compromised by hackers a few years prior.
Many of the issues from the internal database began to surface both in the underground at large and on the mailing list. Had anyone else's engineering department been likewise compromised at the time, there may have much more discussion about other OSes.
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