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Re: [LIG] Signs of the times?



* Raju Mathur [linux-india] <05/06/01 08:37 +0530>:
> 
> Date: Tue, 29 May 2001 12:20:53 +0400 (MSD)
> From: Oleg Broytmann <phd@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Insurer considers Microsoft NT high-risk
> 
> [...] An insurance company has started to charge 5-15% more if you use
> Windows NT as a base for Internet services:
 
>   "We saw that our NT-based clients were having more downtime" due to
>   hacking, says John Wurzler, founder and CEO of the Michigan company, which
>   has been selling hacker insurance since 1998.  Wurzler said the decision

I think Udhay posted this some time back on LIG (or was it on silk?)  He was
quoting from Bruce Schneier's Cryptogram newsletter, IIRC.

	--suresh

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