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Jay Beale On Overcoming Linux Security Holes

Posted by timothy on from the hey-where-is-jay-now dept.

alpinista writes "Sorry, Redmond; according to Jay Beale, it's not yet time to throw away all those pesky insecure Linux boxes. Newsforge interviewed Jay and got some pretty straight talk from a guy that knows more that his share about OS security. In a nutshell: 'Beale's take on how you can make your system more secure, on the Linux vs. Windows security debate, and on the Digital Millennium Copyright Act's impact on security testing.'"

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  1. A few facts about Microsoft's OS may help. by Futurepower(R) · · Score: 3, Interesting


    Some facts about Microsoft's OS may be helpful here in making a comparison:

    English: Windows XP Shows the Direction Microsoft is Going..

    Spanish: Windows XP muestra la dirección que Microsoft está tomando.

  2. Read the article more carefully. by Futurepower(R) · · Score: 3, Interesting


    You seem not to have read the article carefully.

    This is an amazing phenomenon. Someone takes a quick look at a 12,000 word article, finds one thing wrong, and says the whole article is terrible.

    The article does seem to need some improvement, but it is mostly correct. I removed the section you complain about above, so that it can be re-written.

    The point of the section about local security is to tell executives that they are getting less security than they think.

    The free SysInternals.com SID changer works great.