Re: [Fed-Talk] Apple's security belly-flop
Re: [Fed-Talk] Apple's security belly-flop
- Subject: Re: [Fed-Talk] Apple's security belly-flop
- From: Michael Johnson <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2006 23:21:02 -0500
On Feb 24, 2006, at 10:45 PM, Michael Pike wrote:
I'd love to see some of our so called "rent-a-cop" Internet
Security Officers last 10 minutes in the ring with some of these
teenagers you find on IRC.
My ISSO at NIH is actually a pretty sharp guy. He knows his stuff,
but I'll be the first to admit, he's not the norm. I've heard him
comment on the practices of some of the other ICs after returning
from their periodic meetings. It's scary what some of them think
passes for security. At least mine knows a really good cracker could
work his way through the average of 5 firewalls from the NIH border
to a desktop workstation in about 30 minutes. He also knows when to
defer to the knowledge of his admins and how to trust them to do the
job right. Then again, he regularly boots into Linux and works most
of the day in it until he has to reboot into Windows for some Windows-
only software that won't work in wine.
Back to my point - aside from being a better OS, the hacker
community doesn't have the hatred towards Apple that they do
towards Microsoft.
Look at Linux's.... same thing, it's not targeted because it would
be bad Karma.
Good points. There's a lot of merit to them.
-Michael
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