MEB
Thu Apr 17 23:34:42 PDT 2008
Well if your really interested in security, why would you run Windows or
one the MS servers anyway.
One of the Unix clones, Solaris, BeOS, or something alone those lines would
give a much better chance of individual control. Much of what is found in MS
products comes from outside sources anyway, and generally several years
after it was implemented elsewhere [like not till the next MS OS].
Non Microsoft OSs require more than most common users can provide or
understand: knowledge of what IS in the wild and WHY it should be protected
against, and what needs to be done pursuant to it. The general population
[for some unknown reason] wants an OS they can install and get the *feeling*
that they are protected, and if not, that "Microsoft" will provide some fix
"for them" [rather than fixing the issue themselves] at some time; and
something that contains most of the *goodies* they might use..
I personally, have always considered MS products as produced for the
"masses", not those in the security field or concerned with it. All of the
OSs were issued with holes big enough to float a battleship through. If it
weren't for the constant patching, Microsoft would likely have lost the OS
battle years ago.
On the other side of the coin, 98 CAN be made extremely secure for a *plain
jane masses offering": from policies, to encryption, to dozens of other
*addins/add-ons* related to security, IF you take the time and make the
effort. And so can the other OSs [keeping in mind the OS may never be fully
secured].
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"Jim" <invalid@example.invalid> wrote in message
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| I have worked on all MS but vista. Also, ibm 360/370, prime and dec pdp11
| workgroups. According to some writes in wiki, much of this kernel
| abstraction layer CS is no longer around except in special cases involving
| government high security labels of state transition machines. Such strong
| *-properties are not needed or wanted in the public domain. However, this
| stuff is like '70s and '80s era technology. Cetainly an adequate CS policy
| by '90s and 2k is not unreasonable. I have not had to many problems with
| this win98se. Everyone I have talked to about vista seem to give it a
thumbs
| down. I do not know unless I work on a system for awhile. I would like to
| find an EAL for win98.x and xp on up to what is selling today. I am
lossing
| interest in MS because of the poor support even before the so called life
| cycle crap. Perhaps I should have ask this stuff in another NG.
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