On Thu, 2 Aug 2001, Earl Brannigan wrote:
Just out of interest how many security holes have been found in apache?
Apache vulnerabilities have invariably all been patched within a day or two of discovery/report (usually b4 common knowledge / security advisories have been released). The other area MS lose out in this is that not only do they take ages to issues patches after they finally admit that a vulnerability is not an innovative functional addition!!! but that the general animosity held
What makes M$ worse in my opinion is that they don't appear to have a webpage dedicated to security with things spelled out clearly, what patches you have to apply to each bit of M$ software you have installed etc.
This is a good reason to use Unix and free software, people don't bury their heads in the sand like the Windows world.
Adam PS I don't think I have any freinds as I havn't had any interesting Sircam docs sent to me :-(
maybe I should start the open source Sircam whereby you send me a couple of your private files and I add them to my home dir, and then I mail some people random files from my home directory, think of it as an alternative to freenet with much less software development required ;-)