With our current funding situtation I can't afford to buy the security report from mi2g.net. If someone had $1600 for January's monthly security report at 160 pages, I'm sure we would all be interested. :-)
Tony ==================================
On Wed, 25 Feb 2004, Doug Hamilton wrote:
Just a thought ... since its a security report, perhaps someone in IST should bring it to David Milton's attention. Dave could purchase the report (perhaps with PDA), and then submit it to Libraries so we could all have a chance read the entire report.
Doug
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On 24-Feb-04, at 10:08 AM, Wayne Billing wrote:
At 5:27 PM -0600 2004/02/23, ATWong wrote:
On Mon, 23 Feb 2004, Gilles Detillieux wrote:
According to Wayne Billing:
..from Tony Wong in Architecture:
...
It just goes to show how security is only as strong as the
weakest link.
http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/2004/02/20/osxserver/index.php? redirect=1077281339000
In this case, judging from what I've read, the weakest link would seem to be the quality mi2g's research. They don't seem to give the number of successful attacks as a percentage of installed systems, so it's pretty hard to draw any real conclusions about why the Linux numbers are now higher than for Windows.
I think you're reading a little too much into that report. I was just trying to say that a) BSD/OpenBSD/OSX is considered by many to be fairly secure, b) The quality of the system administrator has a great deal to do with the security of a system.
Thanks to you both for pointing out the inherent weaknesses in:
- believing everything one reads
- some information found on the internet
::-)
Wayne
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