Re: [MLUG] AIX slowly going away...

["Christian M. Cepel" <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

No kidding.  We had a situation a while back where some political 
machinations prevented IATS from installing wireless stations in our 
work center.  The center was VERY intense about what software could and 
could not be installed and rightly proud of how impenetrable their 
firewall and security was... and really they did a very good job even if 
I bumped my head against a few things from time to time...

The thing though....  the solution to the wireless problem was to 
install an airport INSIDE of the firewall with a broadcast SSID and no 
WEP or other security letting anyone near the north side of the building 
 on the street behind our firewall with ease.

I always found that a bit curious.

Mike Miller wrote:
> 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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