[PLUG] Joe Jobbed

Paul Heinlein heinlein at madboa.com
Fri Oct 5 16:44:11 UTC 2007


On Fri, 5 Oct 2007, Rich Shepard wrote:

> On Fri, 5 Oct 2007, Michael Rasmussen wrote:
>
>> "The vast majority of the threats we saw were rootkitted Linux 
>> boxes, which was rather startling. We expected Microsoft boxes," he 
>> said.
>
>   Unpatched boxes ... for whatever reason? No firewalls or IP table 
> rules? Other reasons?

Without belittling the differences in the various security models 
employed by MS, *nix, Apple, etc., the major difference between a 
secure box and a rooted one is the person with administrative 
passwords.

In terms of security, I'll take Windows with a good admin over Linux 
with a doofus any day.

-- 
Paul Heinlein <> heinlein at madboa.com <> http://www.madboa.com/



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