[Sussex] A Tale of Two Servers.....

[nik at wired4life.org]

On Fri, Aug 15, 2003 at 01:43:16PM +0100, Matthew Macdonald-Wallace wrote:
> On Fri, 2003-08-15 at 12:22, Mark Harrison wrote:
> > However, for anyone who is smug in their assertion that OpenSource provides
> > a bastion against hacking:  www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/32355.html

"It appears that the machine was cracked using a ptrace exploit by a
local user immediately after the exploit was posted," it added

wow, you mean someone had to have access to the box in the first place,
which is fairly standard method of achieving most exploits under Unix. 

Microsoft Machines  however need only overhear the exploit running on a
machine next to it to fall over...

diversity amongst the population is good, but for fscks sake running MS
servers is like looking after sheep on a farm. You spend all your time
trying to stop them killing themselves or dying from disease and all
your left with is wool and mutton.


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apt-get install zoe-ball
 To many unmet dependancies.
 installation failed.