20 Mar
1999
20 Mar
'99
12:54 p.m.
On Sat, 20 Mar 1999, Allison J Parent wrote:
Win NT can be secure, but watch those service packs as
some improve it and a
few reduce it (bugs!). Generally fairly secure, common enough in use that
security holes are well known and publicized.
Yep. Well known and publicized. The crackerz know them well.
Unfortunately rarely fixed and if then after a long while.
I'm currently looking at linux, it has potential.
Even more than NT, the security holes are well known and publicized,
and as a result fixes tend to show up generally within 24 hours. (I
think one hole took almost 72 hours to plug once, but it was rather
tricky to exploit anyway -- the cracker needed to have read the
source code).
--
Ward Griffiths
"the timid die just like the daring; and if you don't take the plunge then
you'll just take the fall" Michael Longcor