[153813] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: EBAY and AMAZON
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Barry Shein)
Wed Jun 13 13:38:40 2012
From: Barry Shein <bzs@world.std.com>
Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2012 13:36:09 -0400
To: "Michael R. Wayne" <wayne@staff.msen.com>
In-Reply-To: <20120612163329.GY42080@manor.msen.com>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On June 12, 2012 at 12:33 wayne@staff.msen.com (Michael R. Wayne) wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 11:44:44AM +0000, Jamie Bowden wrote:
> >
> > While MS may be a favorite whipping boy, let's not pretend that if the dominant OS were Apple or some flavor of *nix, things would be any better.
That assumes the security architectures of all these OS's is similar
which is simply not true.
There have been security flaws in Microsoft OS's which led to the
spread of malware which would have been almost impossible on any
unix-like operating system.
One of the biggest problems was creating the first and often only user
on MS systems with administrator privileges allowing any piece of
software they ran to do anything on the system.
Even Microsoft recognized this to be a huge flaw beginning with Vista,
no need to be more catholic than the pope.
The problem at this point is that even with improvements in newer
Windows systems there are probably on the order of a billion systems
out there, attached to the net, and still running these deeply flawed
OS's which can be taken over by just clicking on the wrong mail
message.
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