From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 10 12:19:20 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from arus.cloudnet.com (arus.cloudnet.com [204.221.240.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E868715176 for ; Tue, 10 Aug 1999 12:19:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from chris@cloudnet.com) Received: from localhost (chris@localhost) by arus.cloudnet.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA08474; Tue, 10 Aug 1999 14:16:23 -0500 X-Authentication-Warning: arus.cloudnet.com: chris owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 10 Aug 1999 14:16:23 -0500 (CDT) From: Chris Zwilling To: Garance A Drosihn Cc: Roy Bettle , John Horn , misc@openbsd.org, "Questions List FreeBSD.org" Subject: Re: Microsoft ask users to crack win2000 site (fwd) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 10 Aug 1999, Garance A Drosihn wrote: > I myself don't know if it's worth the time to put up such BSD-based > boxes with a similar challenge, but I can see where it might gain > some favorable attention. The only way this would HELP microsoft is > if it turned out that W2K *is* more stable than *BSD. My guess is > that that isn't going to happen. At the same time, I myself would > not want to offer up a box as an "official target" for much of > anyone, so I'm not volunteering to do it... :-) > I would be willing to put up a machine or two with OpenBSD or FreeBSD - I'm just worried that people will not restrict their attacks to just those two machines. Although, I have not heard about any errant attacks in either of these cases. ;-----------------------------------------; ; ; Chris Zwilling ; Don't let people drive you crazy ; chris@cloudnet.com ; when you know it's in walking distance ; System Administrator ; ; 320.240.8243 ;-----------------------------------------; To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message