Re: [gentoo-hardened] Marketing Hardened Gentoo ..

["Jeffrey Lim" <jfsworld@fastmail.fm>]

while everybody is still talking about marketing gentoo, has anybody
actually detected the FUD-like stink of the article?

for one, the "UK based security firm" is not even named, and ... the
phrase "lack of a trustworthy computing initiative"?? oh please.

-jf

On Fri, 6 Jun 2003 13:46:56 -0700, "Gavin Vess" <Gavin@Vess.com> said:
> I believe marketing hardened Gentoo (e.g. by increasing popularity and
> awareness) is critical to the success of this project, so, here is a
> suggestion for marketing material .. and a strong justification.
> 
> http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=9845
> 
> Linux security breaches at all time high
> Windows stood up better, company claims
> 
> By INQUIRER staff: Wednesday 04 June 2003, 11:47
> A UK BASED security firm claimed today that digital attacks on Web sites
> using the Linux operating system have reached an all-time high over the
> last three months.British firm mi2g claimed that Windows based servers
> were more resilient from March to May for corporate and government
> systems.
> It issued figures saying that the reason for the vulnerabilities was down
> to improperly configured systems, lack of a "trustworthy" computing
> initiative, and corporations choosing Linux because of its cost but not
> costing in technical support overheads.
> In May this year, 19,208 successful breaches were recorded against Linux
> based systems, compared to 3,801 against MS Windows based systems, it
> claimed. Both the USA and the UK were most attacked during the three
> months which included the Iraq war.
> 
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