Re: Faster List Checking
Re: Faster List Checking
- Subject: Re: Faster List Checking
- From: "John C. Welch" <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 30 May 2003 13:35:22 -0400
On 05/29/2003 23:35, "Gary Lists" <email@hidden> did proclaim:
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One issue that has been raised by both education and government purchasers:
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OS9 is more secure than OSX, precisely because OSX is Unix-based.
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Can I sit on your network with a packet sniffer one fine day and show you
precisely how wrong you are? OS 9 is accidentally secure, but anyone with
the knowledge could own your network in well under 24 hours, and, if they
were subtle, could keep you from knowing for weeks, even months.
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I am not technically skilled enough to weigh the detailed merits of that
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argument, but it makes intuitive sense. I have never had a virus (well, a
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HyperCard virus once); I have never been hacked through the LinkSys
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firewall; no one has ever broken into my Mac's security (the shareware
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Sesame).
Total strawman. I've never been assaulted by a rabid wombat while using OS
9, but that doesn't mean OS 9 is a rabid - wombat repellant. How many people
have *tried* to hack your system.
By the way...I don't have to do any damage to hack you. I could just packet
dump your data to a nice fat RAID, and see what fun I could have with that.
How's the security on your email?
john
--
"Nuts!"
- General Anthony McAuliffe, surrounded in Bastogne
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