Re: need info for confused ISP
Wasn't there some statistics in the last few days about isp downtime in Germany?
I think it was a link on Linuxtoday
Andrew
On Sat, 15 Apr 2000, Pollywog wrote:
> On 14-Apr-2000 20:36:53 Vitux wrote:
> > Well over a year ago, I saw somewhere on the net that there
> > was an experiment comparing the hacker-seurity of a
> > linux-server to a windohs. That was when I started getting
> > into Linux: everyone was invited to try to break the
> > servers. NT was killed in 2 days, I believe. Linux was
> > never.
> > Probably not much use to you, but quite a little
> > snickersnicker story...
>
> I did mention this to them today, since I remember this too.
> In one of their e-mails, one of their tech support people told me
> that one of her/his friends did a similar experiment and the friend's
> machine was taken down in a few minutes. It seems now that they do
> understand that this happens because the server is not properly
> configured, not because Linux has inherent security holes.
>
> thanks
>
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> Andrew
>
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