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double standard

From hackinthebox.org:

"According to Waugh, the Gnome Web servers that are hosted by Red Hat were compromised by "a dumb cracker who probably didn't realise what they got into." "

So basically these servers weren't being hosted by some amateur who doesn't know about patching, but by perhaps the biggest name in Linux itself, Red Hat, and yet some idiot who didn't know what he was doing was able to compromise them. Hate to think what might have happened if he'd known what he was doing.

Seriously, folks, I use Linux, and I love it, but there's definitely a double-standard going on when the Linux zealots bash MS for security breaches and then something like this happens.

Posted by: tooner440   Posted on: 03/25/04 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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