RE: [cobalt-users] worm attack

[Troy Fridley <TFridley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Greg,
	You have no idea how short-sighted a view that is.  We of the
Linux/*NIX world are just as susceptible to these types of attacks.  Hell
look at CodeRed, it was Solaris Systems which were used to launch the
attacks against un-patched IIS servers.

These types of things DO happen in the Linux/*NIX world, they are just not
as widely published and glorified by the national media.  But our time will
come.  Just wait, someone will find a couple of nice security holes which
they can use to bring down thousands of Linux/*NIX box's around the world.

Windows also gets tighter and cleaner with every generation.  As much as we
hate to admit it;  it is gradually coming up to speed.  In the grand
timeline, Windows is still a baby compared to the *NIX world.

Be a little more open minded.  It's not US vs THEM.  We are all in the same
boat when it comes to such cyber-terrorism that we are seeing today in the
internet server field.

-Troy


-----Original Message-----
From: Greg Hewitt-Long [mailto:greg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2001 11:08 AM
To: cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [cobalt-users] worm attack

>
>
>A wide open guest account with administrator privileges.   That is not a
good thing.


I'm sorry - many tech savvy people and industry analysts have said for years
and years that Windoze and variants of  it, are NOT suitable for servers on
an open network (it barely copes with Exchange server in a complex setup
with multi-hosting and cross LAN propagation of  addresses - it's NOT a good
choice for a server period) - they brought it on themselves.

Greg Hewitt-Long
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