Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on June 08, 2006 10:49 PM
There was a day, way back in the *early* 1990's, when McAfee was what I would've called "trustworthy". That day is long, long gone, and that goes for all of the "protection" sellers. "Gee, nice computer you've got there, it'd be a shame if we rooted it^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hit somehow got compromised...."
I've been using Free Software platforms, specifically GNU/Linux, since 1999 and OpenBSD since 2000. I've been rooted exactly once in that time (July 2000), and it was my own damned fault for not updating my SSH version (1.2.26). I have not repeated that stupid mistake since. Actually, that episode was my motivation to start also using OpenBSD.
My logs show attack after attack against my email and DNS servers. It tends to range between 50,000 and 100,000 attacks of various types every single day. All are repelled.
I have been "Windows Free Since 2003", and I intend to stay that way. Windows--any version--is insecure by design. Security through obscurity does not work.
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on June 08, 2006 10:49 PMI've been using Free Software platforms, specifically GNU/Linux, since 1999 and OpenBSD since 2000. I've been rooted exactly once in that time (July 2000), and it was my own damned fault for not updating my SSH version (1.2.26). I have not repeated that stupid mistake since. Actually, that episode was my motivation to start also using OpenBSD.
My logs show attack after attack against my email and DNS servers. It tends to range between 50,000 and 100,000 attacks of various types every single day. All are repelled.
I have been "Windows Free Since 2003", and I intend to stay that way. Windows--any version--is insecure by design. Security through obscurity does not work.
Thank you, RMS. Thank you, Linus. Thank you, Theo.
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