Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 9 Mar 2001 08:07:00 +0900 | From | Augustin Vidovic <> | Subject | Re: [Open Source W2K argument fallout][: Large Criminal Hacker Attack on Windows NT E-Banking and E-Commerce Sites] |
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On Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 04:40:44PM -0700, Jeff V. Merkey wrote: > I am continually amazed at how secure an "open source" OS is in > comparison to W2K. Relative to the W2K open source arguments, one > good fallout would be that folks would be able to identify > holes like this one quickly.
Hmmm. The article states that the exploited bugs had been reported by M$ before.
More interesting is, that despite all those stolen credit car numbers cases, a more secure paiyment system (at least challenge-based) has still not been adopted. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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