On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 06:29:20PM -0600, Nathan E Norman scribbled: > On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 10:57:39PM +0100, Marek Habersack wrote: > > Hey all, > > > > http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=7598 > > > > A really good reading, heh :-). Enjoy :) > > If you don't know anything about software development, it's really > easy to make several inane statements and then draw conclusions from > those "facts". To bad the guy wasn't bold enough to post his email > address; I could add it to my kill filter straight away :-) There is one, at the bottom of the story - look at the 'Flame Editor' link :) I doubt he's the author, but still :) > I tend to not get too bent out of shape over articles like this. Call I was mostly amused by it, but also a bit shocked at the level of ignorance presented there. > me an elitist, but people like the author of said article (and anyone > who after reading it says "Hey, yeah, that makes sense!") really > aren't the kind of people we need running linux anyway. (HINT: many > insecure linux installations are administrated by dumbasses). I agree, but to give them a benefit of doubt - some linux distros are quite badly secured after the initial install. And I mean just the sane selection of net-accessible software and its settings. If a newbie installs such a distribution, they are unwillingly opening their host up for the attackers - and that's not really their fault. marek
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