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____/ Homer on Thursday 12 June 2008 06:36 : \____
> Verily I say unto thee, that High Plains Thumper spake thusly:
>
>> Recent news, and it is not hard to figure out the OS on these
>> laptops. It certainly isn't Linux and most likely not OSX.
>> Advocates, enjoy. :-)
>>
>> http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080612/ap_on_go_co/china_hacking
>
> Doh! When will these people ever learn ... you can not deploy Windows in
> mission critical or data sensitive environments. Ever. Period.
>
> And again, absolutely zero mention of Windows, even though it obviously
> was, given the mention of viruses.
>
> Mind you, I suppose we should count ourselves lucky to even be privy to
> this information at /all/, given the US Government's blanket policy of
> denial.
It's almost a non-news. Virtually all governments and all departments have
their systems compromised (even the Pentagon). There are social factors as an
eternal vector of risk, but reports seem to suggest that it's usually malware.
They sometimes say more explicitly that workers open attachments... guess
which O/S executes on click. Intervention-free hijacking of Windows is another
serious problem and armies around the world gradually (yet quietly, for
obvious reason) move their systems to Red Hat. Even the US...
- --
~~ Best of wishes
"I don’t understand how IE is going to win. The current path is simply to copy
everything that Netscape does packaging and product wise."
--Jim Allchin, Microsoft
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