Comment Contradictory.... (Score 2) 174
How can they reconcile these two statements:
"PC Week Labs went to great lengths to take the same security measures on the Linux and Windows NT servers running the site that any IT manager worth his or her salt would implement."
and
"Also contributing to the hacker's success were incomplete security updates on our test site."
As other articles about this topic have pointed out, they deliberately only did half the job, but here PCWeek is trying convince us that they did a great job. Personally, I think "any IT manager worth his or her salt" would try to keep up with the latest patches on a weekly basis. This was not an objective test, this was using the buzzwords of the moment to sell magazines and generate page views. Considering how many PHBs read PCWeek, I can't see this article as being anything but damaging to efforts to convince managment that Linux is "as good or better" than NT.
Dirk
"PC Week Labs went to great lengths to take the same security measures on the Linux and Windows NT servers running the site that any IT manager worth his or her salt would implement."
and
"Also contributing to the hacker's success were incomplete security updates on our test site."
As other articles about this topic have pointed out, they deliberately only did half the job, but here PCWeek is trying convince us that they did a great job. Personally, I think "any IT manager worth his or her salt" would try to keep up with the latest patches on a weekly basis. This was not an objective test, this was using the buzzwords of the moment to sell magazines and generate page views. Considering how many PHBs read PCWeek, I can't see this article as being anything but damaging to efforts to convince managment that Linux is "as good or better" than NT.
Dirk
