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On Tue, Dec 21, 2004 at 12:03:12PM +0530, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: > On Tue, 21 Dec 2004 06:22:17 +0000 (GMT), Christopher L. Morrow > <[email protected]> wrote: > > there are others of course... it's not the OS that matters in the long > > run, it's the administration of that OS (or so it seems to me, admittedly > > not a sysadmin though, anymore). Sure, initial/default installs might be > > problematic in one/all OS's, but by and large extended lifetimes on a > > live/hostile network means patches must be applied. Seems like that > > doesn't happen by and large. > > [waiting for an OpenVMS user to speak up] > > Frankly, from an operational perspective, I guess the only way to go > is to trust the inside of your network even less than you trust the > outside ... and have processes that quickly isolate and block access > from / to compromised hosts till they are fixed. > > -- > Suresh Ramasubramanian ([email protected]) well... i trust both inside and outside roughly the same... the outside, i have to depend on others to do my work for me... the inside is nobodys responsiblity but my own. being a "good" player depends on me doing the "right" things in my own backyard ... thats the only way to have a better neighborhood, when everyone does their part . --bill
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