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'USA TODAY' WEBSITE HACKED; PRANKSTERS MOCK BUSH, CHRISTIANITY...
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| 7/12/2002
| Matt Drudge
Posted on 07/11/2002 9:33:43 PM PDT by toupsie
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To: Incorrigible
Of course, UNIX systems are also vulnerable as Bush2000 has pointed out numerous times but that doesn't seem to get the press about Microsoft. From SecurityFocus, a list of vulns by product for the last 4 years:
Apache 2.0
One vuln.
One vuln in 4 years
.
Now, Microsoft IIS 5.0:
It is, in my opinion, professional incompetence to use MS IIS for any mission-critical web work.
To: Incorrigible
Of course, UNIX systems are also vulnerable as Bush2000 has pointed out numerous times but that doesn't seem to get the press about Microsoft. From SecurityFocus, a list of vulns by product for the last 4 years:
Apache 2.0
One vuln.
One vuln in 4 years
.
Now, Microsoft IIS 5.0:
It is, in my opinion, professional incompetence to use MS IIS for any mission-critical web work.
To: All
Ooops, sorry about that -- I did *not* mean to post that twice.
To: ELS; Dominic Harr
Hi ELS,
I'm sorry if my rant cast an aspersions on your abilities. Unintended.
The Nimba and Code Red viruses could have been prevented if the patch that Microsoft released months earlier had been installed. In fact, it was the description of the problem on Microsoft's site that gave the hackers the idea. :-(
The original goal was to make administration and all features of the server web enabled and other features open by default. Though this makes computing easier for those trying to implement solutions (like running executables in Outlook), it also makes it easier for hackers. Thus, Microsoft will be shipping OSes in the future without installing software and keeping ports closed. Safer yes. Less functional for users, yes.
The above is the default for UNIX implementations and thus, fewer hack attacks. Microsoft has reconciled itself to the fact that there people who are unfairly against Microsoft and wish it harm (Dominic??? :-) ).
To: Incorrigible
Microsoft has reconciled itself to the fact that there people who are unfairly against Microsoft and wish it harm (Dominic??? :-) ). If the above list didn't prove something about the quality of the product to you, then by all means continue using it.
I don't wish MS harm, anymore than I wish 'Brittney Spears' wrong. I just think it's devastating for our tech industry to have a company using illegal means to force inferior products on the market, and want the illegalities to stop.
Other than stopping MS's illegalities, I wish them no harm at all.
To: Incorrigible
No offense taken. Most of my work is with an application server (Opentext Livelink) and the Web server is merely a conduit between the browser and the app server. I could have switched to NS ES, but they charge a fee :-) whereas I was able to download Apache for free, install it, and get back to work.
I'm not really a strong partisan for any particular OS. I have used the major ones (DOS/Win, Mac, Unix) and they all have pros and cons, IMHO.
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posted on
07/12/2002 10:03:00 AM PDT
by
ELS
To: toupsie
Hmmmm. Bad spelling? Didn't know Jesse Jackson was a hacker.
To: Carry_Okie
They were also heavily into occultism/satanism. Nice bunch of boys, huh?
To: meyer
yeah, I thought the same thing...barf!
To: Marysecretary
Just like the mucky-mucks in the UN.
The same people. The same beliefs. The same goals. And...
The same means.
To: Vidalia
I disagree. Drudge is relevant.
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posted on
07/12/2002 12:29:24 PM PDT
by
Maedhros
To: Dominic Harr
I don't wish MS harm, anymore than I wish 'Brittney Spears' wrong.
Surrrrrrre, you don't. You just confuse poor administration with poor product quality.
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posted on
07/12/2002 12:35:57 PM PDT
by
Bush2000
To: Dominic Harr; All
One vuln in 4 years
This, of course, is another one of your whopper lies. Follow the link and lookup Apache Software Foundation. You will find dozens of serious vulnerabilities. But that's not in the script, eh? It depends on how you define "serious", Clinton pretender.
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posted on
07/12/2002 12:53:55 PM PDT
by
Bush2000
To: Bush2000
Posted the list, and link, above.
On vuln in 4 years, for Apache.
And for IIS?
If you can't see the quality difference in those two pieces of software from that list of defects, I can't help you.
To: Col. Forbin
Thanks for pointing this out. I jumped the gun. The parody were making implications that Bush was Nazi-like, not Christianity. But the accusation that Christianity led to Naziism is a standard leftist lie. They mocked the Pope and Rumsfeld too.
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posted on
07/12/2002 2:34:00 PM PDT
by
Pyro7480
To: toupsie
The USA TODAY newspaper's website was broken into late Thursday evening by hackers who put up a series of stories blasting George Bush, Sercretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and Christianity.It's gotta be Algore, he has the secret Web password that allows him to hack any website-- he installed on the day he invented the Internet.
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