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[linux] Problème grandissant des attaques sur internet
- To: Anibal Landauro <Anibal.Landauro@gempsy.com>, Ari Loytynoja <apl@dbm.ulb.ac.be>, f.farnir@ulg.ac.be, F.Schmitz@ulg.ac.be, Gaetan ANGELY <gan@rtbf.be>, Kris Carlier <root@iguana.be>, lgavage@ulg.ac.be, scipers@BR.FGOV.BE, xavier.hubin@student.ulg.ac.be, linux@lists.linuxbe.org
- Subject: [linux] Problème grandissant des attaques sur internet
- From: Alain EMPAIN <Alain.Empain@ulg.ac.be>
- Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 16:41:04 +0200
- Organization: University of Liège, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Molecular Genetics
- Reply-to: linux@lists.linuxbe.org
Bonjour tout le monde,
Voici une opinion assez carrée, mais qui vaut la peine d'etre méditée
http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/opinions/3647/1/
Extrait:
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Time has come to draw a line -- a subtle line, but a line nonetheless. It is
this:
Anyone using Microsoft software in connection with the Internet simply cannot
be taken seriously. This doesn't mean we should be impolite in dealing with
these persons, anymore than we should be impolite to someone who is eager to
show you his new computer and it turns out to be a Play Station.
But the fact is that Microsoft has proved to be utterly unconcerned about
security. Its own sites have been cracked, over and over.
The National Security Agency has joined Linux development after having
concluded that Microsoft's code is so corrupt that it cannot even be audited.
Outlook macro viruses are commonplace. The web server has been so full of
holes that Microsoft had had to keep trying to plug them, to no real effect.
And based on this tarnished and pitted record they propose .Net and XP. Do
you suppose there will be sudden fastidiousness where security is concerned?
This is a real hoot, except that it is the Internet that we all use that
their clumsy code will be screwing up. But the appropriate attitude toward
Microsoft's willing victims has to be pity. That isn't to say that when
someone you know fills your mailbox with Outlook macro virus crap, you don't
have a right to be irritated and say so -- but at the same time point out
that the person wouldn't look anywhere near as foolish if they were using
software not vulnerable to such foolishness. As an example, this, which I
just sent:"
...
Alain
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