[60083] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: WANTED: ISPs with DDoS defense solutions
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Petri Helenius)
Thu Jul 31 14:03:34 2003
From: "Petri Helenius" <pete@he.iki.fi>
To: "Omachonu Ogali" <nanog@missnglnk.com>
Cc: <nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2003 21:01:26 +0300
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
> If FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, RedHat, Debian, SuSE were packaged and
> and sold in stores, how would this be any different? Oh wait, They
> are packaged and sold in stores!
Just by comparing the OpenBSD security track record to the one of any Windows
release would dismiss your point.
>
> People find remote exploitable flaws in the aforementioned OSes during
> during their pre-release, release, after-release, alpha, beta, gamma,
> delta force, and nuclear reactor stages.
>
Itīs not black and white, while no OS is perfect, there are measurable differences
on how much they are exploited. Diversity would make trojan/virus writers job
harder. So diversity is good.
> No one's perfect, not ISPs, not users, not software vendors, not you.
> So please stop telling us about the lifestyle on planet Utopia.
>
So by telling people to shut up you expect to make the world more secure? Right :)
Pete
