itguy05
join:2005-06-17
Camp Hill, PA
| reply to BosstonesOwn
Re: WHY....
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Apache has its flaws as well as IIS don't try and say they don't.
Never said it was flawless. All software has flaws. Point is the criticality of the flaws. MS software has more critical flaws on average than their competitors.
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I thought most flaws were from activex and java, ohh lets not forget idiot user syndrome.
Hello? What do you think makes Money's stuff so pretty? Activex, which thanks to MS's wy of thinking is now inseprably bundled into the core of Windows. So any A|X control that gets installed can have escalated privelages.
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Why not hack map point ? You do realize that it drives many of the fortune 500's vehicle tracking systems right ? Like when we track every vehicle in all our fleets , we do it with map point on a server cluster with enough bandwidth to completely saturate a 10 gig link, that is motivation for any hacker that wants to pump out pirated material , or pump out a crap load of virii or bots in a short period.
I just don't see that - a quick Google search for Vehicle tracking systems and the few I visited didn't require Map Point. Then again, I don't work in a business that does vehicle tracking. But I have a hard time believing (other than from a MS PR paper) That most F500 companies use MP.
Certainly you guys picked the inferior solution since according to MS, Mappoint is more a desktop solution than a server solution.
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Now let's keep going with why not hack map point. Any flaw that can allow control of the system is a serious threat no matter what app even if it's map point, if it gives the attacker a chance for any entrance it's a bad thing.
But why hack the crappy MapPoint app when it's easier to hack the OS it runs on - Windows. And since you can only run MP on Windows, it's guaranteed that every MP installation will also contain a highly exploitable OS it makes sense to inject your code in the OS.
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Maybe if more IT people would realize this then we would have less virii in the wild tearing down networks.
No, as an IT professional myself, what we need to do is educate people on 2 things:
1) Dangers of Windows - it is a very dangerous OS
2) Dangers of a "standardized environment" - When everything is the same, a common vulnerability has the potential to wipe out your entire business. If you run your ship on Windows (scary thought) and some new worm comes out, you could loose all your critical apps. If you had a mix of Win, Linux, Mac, Solaris, AIX, etc you would only potentially loose the whole thing.
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and by the way if your anti MS then just uninstall windows and no excuses about how your kid uses it for games or such. Sorry bunch of hypocrites that bash ms yet fail to install any alternative. Better yet go buy a mac.
Bzzt, wrong. I make my living fixing Windows and educating on the downfalls of the OS. Also certified in RedHat and soon to be AIX. And guess what, I have owned Macs exclusively for the past 4.5 years. So, no hypocrite here. |
