Writing to editors (was RE: Is IIS worth the risk?)

["jt" <jt@xxxxxx>]

Tom, John

See my post on the iSN-Citizens list, probably this afternoon...  (If you're
not a member, check the archives.)

jt

| -----Original Message-----
| [mailto:midrange-l-admin@midrange.com]On Behalf Of thomas@inorbit.com
| Sent: Monday, December 31, 2001 8:49 PM
|
| John:
|
| I have to state that I do not consider myself a "security
| specialist" even though the company that currently employs me
| competes in that space -- I was hired for other reasons. I'm
| actually something of a "generalist", as are many others on this
| list. And my participation here is usually from personal
| interest, both in sharing knowledge when I have it and in
| learning from others which happens often.
|
| OTOH, my current boss... um... kind of "wrote the book" as far as
| iSeries security goes and we have a couple others who qualify, so
| maybe I could drop a suggestion or two. I definitely agree that
| SOMEone should write. Maybe even MANY someones.
|
| Tom Liotta
|
| On Mon, 31 December 2001, jpcarr@tredegar.com wrote:
|
| > I'm tellin ya, some people should write to the editor's and to
| the writers
| > (maybe some of our resident security specialists here heh Tom?)
| > http://www.infoworld.com/articles/tc/xml/01/12/24/011224tcpcp.xml
| >
| > John Carr
| > -----------------------------
| > On Mon, 31 December 2001, "Adam Lang" wrote:
| >
| > > Quote from article:
| > >
| > > "Worms, site defacements, and DDoS (distributed denial of service)
| > attacks
| > > strike non-Microsoft servers daily. Microsoft simply makes a juicier
| > target,
| > > mostly by virtue of its gigantic installed base, than any of its
| > > competitors."
| > >
| > > Which is a load of crap.  This justifies email viruses.
| Apache owns 60%
| > of
| > > the webserver market.  IIS about 20 to 25%.
| >
| > What really interests me about this is that the quote was from
| the pro-IIS
| > contributor to the article.
| >
| > Tom Liotta