I think more of the quote just goes to show their ignorance........ ----------------- But Lawal and others said Microsoft is not unique in its vulnerabilities. "We have a Linux server that has three times the critical updates as our Windows server," he said. Nathan Hanks, managing director at Continental Airlines, said, "All the guys hacking Windows are Linux guys." Continental was hit hard by SQL Slammer and "our CEO said we'd failed," Hanks said. "We cannot have undocumented servers that are responding to anonymous queries ... that allow buffer overruns," Hanks said. "CIOs need people in place to figure out why port 1434 is open on publicly exposed firewalls." Lawal said all companies need to have proper processes and personnel in place to deal with potential breaches. He also said he was impressed with Microsoft's response to the problems. Gordon Mangione, vice president of SQL Server, hosted a conference call with all the affected CTOs, and within a day Microsoft was mobilizing resources, he said. "We don't get that from Microsoft competitors," Lawal said. "Having said that, we said some bad words." Having one vendor throat to choke is helpful in crisis situations, Hanks said. An IT pro can't go to the CEO and say that a server is down, "and hopefully some guy in Amsterdam" will get to a fix when he gets back from the "dope house," he said. ------------------------------- Kinda like saying "we screwed up because our firewall was open, but it's Linux's fault" or along those lines. If he blames Linux for all those hacks, does this mean Linux is far more powerful than Windoze?? Hmmmm...... -Jeff ----- Original Message ----- From: "Martin" Newsgroups: Suse.Linux-e To: Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2003 2:37 PM Subject: Re: [SLE] [OT] Linux users are a bunch of potheads. ;)

May be I'm searching wrong direction but I couldn't find the 'potheads' statement yet but found all others.

Anyway, with anyone's option it's like with the ass, everyone gets one :) (I've heard this somewhere and like it) so give the guy a break - the world colored just one way would be boring wouldn't it?

Martin

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This is a good one.

http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB20030603S0012

According to Nathan Hanks, managing director at Continental Airlines Linux developers are a bunch of potheads.

" Having one vendor throat to choke is helpful in crisis situations, Hanks said. An IT pro can't go to the CEO and say

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down, "and hopefully some guy in Amsterdam" will get to a fix when he gets back from the "dope house," he said."

-Ben

There is no hope for security across the board when stupid companies hire stupid people for critical positions.

Flown that airline a couple of times (food on the international flights sucked), but that was very offensive.

Dunno, being in the States for 4 years leads to the first impulse to sue...This must be in the burrito's or something :).

Seriously, there are other things he says that h needs to prove, like saying all his attacks come from Linux users (funny, most of the crap I get is from Windows vulnerabilities spreading their vile across the 'net).

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