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Memo to Microsoft: Stay Secretive, Please
Jon Lasser, 2002-05-15

Unix and Linux security owes much to openness and public disclosure, but Microsoft is too far gone for sunshine to do any good.

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Come back to earth SpaceMonkey - I rebutt your rebutt 2002-05-17
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Come back to earth SpaceMonkey - I rebutt your rebutt 2002-05-23
Anonymous
> Can you please come up with some examples
> of NT/W2K's insecurity at the OS level?

Haven't seen an update from Gene, but probably around somewhere.

http://www.cerias.purdue.edu/coast/ms_penetration_testing/

I agree applications are more important.
Face it Linux is only about 18MB of download most of which is docs
and the like.

The core GNU apps probably only about 40MB,
which is collectively smaller than my web browser.

For me key server apps are DNS and HTTP and SMTP servers.
In MS case all of these applications are unusuable where security is
required, but it doesn't stop people doing it.


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Someone fire this guy :\







 

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