[45485] in Cypherpunks
Re: .PWL Spin
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeff A. Gehlbach)
Fri Dec 15 22:11:20 1995
Date: Fri, 15 Dec 95 20:38:33
Reply-To: <jeffg@hiwaay.net>
From: "Jeff A. Gehlbach" <jeffg@hiwaay.net>
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
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At 02:01 PM 12/15/95 -0600, you wrote:
>According to rumor, anonymous-remailer@shell.portal.com said:
>> On Sat, 9 Dec 1995, Joel McNamara wrote:
<SNIP>
>> What would make a University less secure than a corporation??
>
>1) Usually more net connected hosts.
>2) Lack of adequate sysadmin attention/knowlege.
>3) Vague and poorly enforced site security policies.
IMHO Microsoft has no concern about the security of any university; educational institutions will standardize on whatever OS the majority of their students are familiar with (=Windows whatever).
No, the big priority in Redmond is winning (and keeping) corporate customers. A corporation can standardize around whatever the management likes. A large Virginia-based metals corporation recently standardized on the M$ Office suite with little regard to the hundreds of users who had already effectively entrenched with WordPerfect.
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