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Security Isn't Just Avoiding Microsoft

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the foil-hats-also-required dept.

Jay Singala noted a story which points out "It's time for all the people who have entertained this fantasy to stop deluding themselves. How would life without Microsoft be different? It wouldn't be in any meaningful way for those in charge of network security; there would just be a different vendor peddling the dominant operating system."

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  1. Um, Link? by Door+in+Cart · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Jay Singala noted a story which points out And that story is where?
  2. No by Wiseman1024 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    > How would life without Microsoft be different?

    Think of lusers not using an Internet browser that sends "User-agent: RAPE ME LOL" every time they browse for porn in the stupid way they always do.

    Think of lusers not running their OS in god mode when they couldn't tell a computer and a refrigerator apart.

    Think of lusers not having a POP email client complete with an awesome support for scripting spambots.

    Think of lusers having software written by people who give a damn about security (and functionality), not by businesstards who just want to lure lusers by offering stupid interfaces they saw in Star Trek.

    You can ask any questions you like, but facts speak for themselves: if you get rid of MSIE, Outlook Express, MSN Messenger, and Windows altogether, you could be the worst systems administrator ever and you still wouldn't have 1/10 the security breaches and incidents.

    (I, however, recommend getting rid of screensaver collecting, iTunes using lusers first.)

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  3. Re:Not exactly by Fred_A · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I read it on /.'s own Firehouse earlier this morning.
    /.'s house is on fire bring out the hose !
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  4. But what do you do first? by wonkavader · · Score: 0, Redundant

    True, "Security Isn't Just Avoiding Microsoft", but that's a helluva good start.

    When we optimize code, we don't look in the part of the code that the program spends 5% of it's time doing, we look where it spends 80%. Microsoft stuff is incredibly insecure, both because of bad design and because there's little in the way of restrictions on amount of crap those boxes do.

    Scrub them out, and a huge amount of security issues go away.

    Then, THEN, you worry about the other stuff. ANd yes, then you actually DO worry about that other stuff.