Re: Linux vs. NT Security contest

[Emre <emre@j-garrett.com>]

On 21-Sep-99 Theo de Raadt wrote:
>> Interestingly enough, the US Army got tired of being cracked and recently
>> ditched NT in favor of... drumroll... a Mac.  Guess they never heard about
>> OpenBSD.
> 
> Don't worry about that.
> 
> There are hundreds of NFR installs in the US government.
> 
> Almost all of them running on top of OpenBSD.
> 
> Of course, they don't know it.

Could it be that they don't trust OpenBSD or (or possibly don't take it
seriously enough), since it's based in Canada and not in the U.S.?  I don't see
how that would make any sense.... most army servers run on buggy, unpatched
Digital Unix or Slowaris boxes and then they wonder why they get cracked by a
bunch of 17 year olds.  Just considering to run NT is so ridiculous...they know
how it lacks security (must be that M$ is giving them a *VERY* good discount). 
I don't understand why they would run NT.  The army already uses powerful boxes
like alphas ...they should just run OpenBSD on them, NT what a waste... :(
I hope NFR will NEVER be ported to NT!


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