Longhorn Server's "Improved" Security

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Friday October 13, 2006 @05:26AM from the articulate-vegetable dept.

An anonymous reader writes, "The 'most secure Windows ever' may be very secure from hackers and malware — but what do you do when Longhorn Server lets you install the OS, set up Active Directory, and initialize the domain without once asking you even to create an administrator password? From the article: 'What happened to Windows Server? Where did all of the stringent security checks and ultra-protection of Windows Server 2003 go? Windows Server 2000 was quite insecure, and Windows Server 2003 turned over a new leaf... But it seems Microsoft is more than willing to flip that page back — even Windows Server 2000 required an Administrator password at the very least.'" Inevitably, Dave Barry's years-old quote comes to mind: "Microsoft has a new version out, Windows XP, which according to everybody is the 'most reliable Windows ever.' To me, this is like saying that asparagus is 'the most articulate vegetable ever.'"

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default password by gEvil+(beta) · 2006-10-13 05:33 · Score: 4, Funny

I heard a rumor that the default admin password is "chair"

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1. Re:default password by entrylevel · 2006-10-13 05:44 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  You just FUCKING KILLED any hope of this being the most secure Windows ever!
  
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2. Re:default password by PPH · 2006-10-13 06:23 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  If you try 'chair', it will be thrown as an exception.
  
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Asparagus by justinbach · 2006-10-13 05:36 · Score: 4, Funny

To me, this is like saying that asparagus is 'the most articulate vegetable ever.'"
I think I'd want to check with the corn on that one--after all, aren't they the ones with *ears*?
*ducks*

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