From: Augustin Vidovic <vido@ldh.org>
To: "Jeff V. Merkey" <jmerkey@vger.timpanogas.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Open Source W2K argument fallout][securityalert@sans.org: Large Criminal Hacker Attack on Windows NT E-Banking and E-Commerce Sites]
Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2001 08:07:00 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010309080700.B22814@ldh.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010308164044.A11129@vger.timpanogas.org>
In-Reply-To: <20010308164044.A11129@vger.timpanogas.org>; from jmerkey@vger.timpanogas.org on Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 04:40:44PM -0700
On Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 04:40:44PM -0700, Jeff V. Merkey wrote:
> I am continually amazed at how secure an "open source" OS is in
> comparison to W2K. Relative to the W2K open source arguments, one
> good fallout would be that folks would be able to identify
> holes like this one quickly.
Hmmm. The article states that the exploited bugs had been reported
by M$ before.
More interesting is, that despite all those stolen credit car numbers
cases, a more secure paiyment system (at least challenge-based) has still
not been adopted.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-03-08 23:06 UTC|newest]
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2001-03-08 23:40 [Open Source W2K argument fallout][securityalert@sans.org: Large Criminal Hacker Attack on Windows NT E-Banking and E-Commerce Sites] Jeff V. Merkey
2001-03-08 23:07 ` Augustin Vidovic [this message]
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