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 Pike <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2006 21:30:37 -0700
On Feb 24, 2006, at 9:21 PM, Michael Johnson wrote:
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.
NIH is one of the agencies that I have a lot of respect for :) If he
boots in to Linux, you know he is better than 99% of the ISSO's out
there :) It sounds to me like you got "one of the good guys". :)
Let him know that he can use VMWare and run Windows in Linux at
almost full PC speed. I would love to see VMWare come out with a
version for MacIntel... VMWare was the best I had used before I
converted to Mac.
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