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