On Fri, 1 Nov 2002, Nic Scheepers wrote:

> I am just wondering why only NT boxes get hacked according to Dale and
> not the *nix boxes.

I have to respond to this.  I **NEVER** said that.  Certainly Unix and
Linux systems get hacked every day.  I believe you will find, however,
that hacked Windows machines are far more common, and there are many more
vulnerabilities to be found there.

What I said was that I personally had never had a UNIX machine get hacked,
either at home or at work, but have seen multiple instances of Windows
servers getting hacked.  Neither group are maintained by unskilled people.

> Maybe , just maybe the hackers is all *nix guys and they have to prove
> something to the world or maybe because most of the servers out there
> is NT boxes or maybe because it is not fun hacking *nix boxes anymore
> because it is so easy to hack and NT boxes gives them the adrenalin
> shot they need.

This is simple OS bashing, so I'm going to resist the temptation to
respond.  It's just silly on so many levels.

> According to my experience any piece of software is hackable you just
> need the time to find the loophole that the programmers of the systems
> left intentionally or unintentionally:-)

True, some are just more easily hacked than others.

Dale

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