RE: [Full-Disclosure] Re: Pudent default security - Was: CyberInsecurity: The cost of Monopoly

[Michal Zalewski <lcamtuf@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 30 Sep 2003, Steve Wray wrote:

> There is if you don't use a windowing operating system; this is
> precisely what my team is doing for a very large collection of
> firewalled boxes, remotely administered and their forewall
> configurations all maintained and audited by remote control and en masse
> to boot.

Oh please... We are talking about desktop environments and LAN "blob
networks"... and Windows is on almost every desktop. If you work for a
company that either never used this system, or could easily migrate to
another system that works better for them, consider yourself very lucky.

In such a case, you do have powerful remote control, backup, auditing and
maintenance tools, and it's easy to come up with a solution that suits you
best. On Windows, however, it takes some serious work to do the same, and
it's often cheaper to buy a product that has the same functionality and a
nice GUI.

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