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Re: Level3 routing issues?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Neil J. McRae)
Sat Jan 25 16:32:02 2003

In-Reply-To: <Pine.WNT.4.43.0301251241010.2284-100000@TEMPEST.hq.nac.net>
 "from Alex Rubenstein at Jan 25, 2003 12:45:58 pm"
To: Alex Rubenstein <alex@nac.net>
Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2003 18:47:49 +0000 (GMT)
Cc: "nanog@merit.edu" <nanog@merit.edu>
From: neil@DOMINO.ORG (Neil J. McRae)
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu


> Third point to the correlation above: The vast majority of Windows admins
> are dingbat-morons, self-proclaimed experts. Had then not been
> dingbat-morons, and applied the readily available and widely announced
> patches (as zealously as unix folks patch thier stuff), this'd be all
> moot, and we'd all have gotten a better nights sleep.

I don't think this is fair statement either, Linux and Microsoft
have the most issues because they have the largest market share - security
by obscurity. It doesn't mean they have anymore issues than any other 
vendors, success brings problems and this is one of them.

Regards,
Neil.
--
Neil J. McRae - Alive and Kicking
neil@DOMINO.ORG

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