By Martin Brampton
Published: Tuesday 11 May 2004
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Anonymous
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Melbourne, Australia
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Consultant
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Computer security isn't primitive, the problem is that we have let Microsoft and Unix/Linux dictate our standards for IT security. These want to blame the applications for almost every problem when it is the operating systems that should be controlling the environment in which the application operates. OpenVMS and some of IBM's operating systems (not AIX) have very few problems of security because they are designed properly. Alas, other operating systems are not.
Funny how a BBC report that headlined a problem in Windows as being the reason why the Sasser virus was spreading so fast was pulled very quickly from its webpages!
The simple fact is that when we have very poor locks on our doors it is just a tad unreasonable to blame the entire problem on the burglars.
For the real reason that security is so primitive,...
Jim Winski
That is a little one eyed at best. There are seri...
David
The internet is still in the wild west phase. The...
Anonymous
You are all correct!
However, the real blame is...
Tom
Computer security isn't primitive, the problem is ...
Anonymous
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