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On Wed, 8 Mar 2006, Christian M. Cepel wrote:
The nightmares with showme, silver, black, gold, etc here on campus have
put a very bad taste in my mouth. When asked, the excuse was that AIX
is the most secure. The answer to that was perhaps, but not so much
more secure that it warrants the nightmare when other nearly as secure
and just better *nixes are available.
"Security" is often a bit of a ruse. I know of a place where they run
OpenVMS because it is "secure" but they don't use secure protocols so
people are connecting by ordinary FTP and Telnet from all over the planet.
Is that more secure than a well-patched Linux box running SSH? I don't
think so. Will they dump OpenVMS in favor of Linux? No, because OpenVMS
is "more secure."
Mike
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