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Microsoft Attempts to Secure IIS

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the taking-their-own-sweet-time dept.

billmaly writes: "Yahoo has this article about trying to make IIS more secure. Among steps is to have it install in its most secure state, putting the onus on sysadmins to remove it from that state. It looks like Microsoft may be trying to do the right thing from a security standpoint, at least on paper."

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  1. Speaking of broken webservers... by Wakko+Warner · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Any idea when we'll experience a 24-hour period in which Slashdot's database doesn't explode?

    - A.P.

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    "Remember when the U.S. had a drug problem, and then we declared a War On Drugs, and now you can't buy drugs anymore?"
  2. Microsoft security... by Desco · · Score: 3, Offtopic

    Microsoft's idea of making their products more secure is making it harder to copy... Seriously, if they'd spend as much time worrying about actual security as they do preventing and prosecuting piracy, it'd be more secure than Fort Knox.

  3. Offtopic but funny by ch-chuck · · Score: 2, Offtopic

    Just read on cnet where Ray Noorda of Novell used to call the guys at Msft Bill "Pearly" Gates who promises you the heavens while Steve "The Embalmer" prepares the body for burial.

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  4. LOL! by Mustang+Matt · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I would have modded this funny. Sorry don't have any mod points right now.

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    The man who trades freedom for security does not deserve nor will he ever receive either. - Benjamin Franklin