IT Job creations... IT job losses?

Thu Nov 6 13:45:06 UTC 2003

On Thu, 6 Nov 2003, Walter Dnes wrote:

> On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 05:58:40PM -0500, Keith Mastin wrote
>   Question... how many Apache security fixes have there been in the last
> 3 years versus IIS ?  Postfix, Exim, and Sendmail combined versus MS
> Exchange ?  Pine/Elm/Mutt etc., etc., versus Outhouse Excuse ?  Mozilla
> (and derivatives thereof) versus Internet Explorer ?

With the right setup, a lot the patches don't even matter.
The right setup being proper shell security and secure kernel patches
(i.e. the openwall or pax patches).

-Ralph
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