> The ones
> to blame are the people that live in normal houses with normal locks
> or even let their doors open instead of living in fortified bunkers
> and shoot everyone on sight".
I am not that extreme. But if someone leaves their car with the engine
running all day they are stupid and shouldn't be surprised when
it is stolen.
Someone who leave a unattended company car with the engine running
deserve to get fired when it is stolen. This is neglect.
Of course the thief is a criminal too, and the worst one. But
not taking any precautions is neglecting responsibility.
[...]
> Fact is: Most companies don't install IIS just because they're
> Microsoft slaves. They install it, because another 3rd party
> application that depends on yet another application that needs another
> piece of software to run is only available on (you may already have
> guessed it) WIN32. OLE, Visual Basic and all the heavily glued
> together windows stuff. That is what drags people to the WIN32.
> And once you're here, you use IIS. Not Apache. Not iPlanet.
>
You can run your internet server on windows. Nothing inherently
wrong in that. But then you'd better put a good firewall in front
of it. And you'll run the latest virus checkers. And you'll
turn _off_ particularly unsafe "features". Windows servers can
be safe, but many aren't.
Not doing this is like storing your money in a heap on the street.
A thief taking your pile is still a thief but there is less
punishment because he didn't break in or threaten anybody.
Helge Hafting
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