Re: INCREDIBLE - what am I missing here... ??? !!!

[Steve <steve@xxxxxxxxxx>]

In article <CCE4573B7570D411874300508B8E04CC17604C@mailsrvnew.irfm.org>,
Chris Bipes <chris.bipes@cross-check.com> writes
>SECURITY & RELIABLITY!

[Linux stuff snipped]

Get out of here - Linux is as secure and reliable as an AS/400 -
my intranet site is on a 8 year old 486/66 and has never failed
in two years, despite handling 1000 + hits a day.

Because it's open source, you can secure it as solid as anything you
want - and I wouldn't take bets on your AS/400 security. I was
challenged to hack one of ours and walked right in. Don't believe
the propaganda - put up a server and try it (it costs nothing but time).

It's only M$ you can't secure - because you can't see the code, and
because it's designed as a single user system and then forced to be a
networked one, so the default is for everything to be open to use and
available - because that is what a single user system would expect.

M$ are getting there, but the mindset is still single user in most
things.
-- 
Steve
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