Re: sigh: Company trashes all linux and sun boxes as they are "insecure"

[Devdas Bhagat <dodobh@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 30 Mar 2001, Suresh Ramasubramanian spewed into the ether:
> This mail on the lkml was quoted on linuxtoday.com
> <http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2001-03-29-006-20-PS>
>
> 	-s

Hmmm, heres an idea for the tech's to really get back.
For maintainance reasons, all machines must be ghosted once a week.
(and since a secure win9x machine is unusable, all win9x machines must 
be made unusable)
No Office -- macro viruses
No Internet Explorer -- too many holes (see George (or is it Georgi) 
Guninski's site for a whole list).
Telnet, Ftp, Http will all be banned (cleartext transmission).
No Outlook Express either use PCpine (or some other MUA ported from 
Unix to windows (or better ssh to port 110 of MS Exchange) [Hmmm, this 
is one thing that I haven't come across anywhere before).
No file and print sharing allowed.
Of course, accidents will happen......to backups ;).

(Since there isn't an address for the writer, I can't directly forward 
this to him, but if anyone has better suggestions, please add them in. 
Dunno when it might come in use ;)).

Devdas Bhagat
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The Killer Ducks are coming!!!