Re: arguments against moving site from Linux/Apache/PHP server to Windows/IIS/PHP needed

From: Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2003 07:38:08 +0000
Subject: Re: arguments against moving site from Linux/Apache/PHP server to Windows/IIS/PHP needed
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* Thus wrote Joel Rees (joel@alpsgiken.gr.jp): > > First of all, security.. Windows is full of security holes > > Did anyone mention the weak password encryption that cnet.com talked > about recently? If you get a copy of the password file, you can break > any MSW password in a few seconds. Macintosh passwords takes 4000 times I can see it already.... "But Sir, if we do it like this it will make password easily..." "Screw it", Says the Marketer/Manager/Head of sales, "we have more important things to do." And slaps down a piece of paper marked in big red ink "URGENT" over some barely legible small print that says "Network security exploit: unable to implement BSD's tcp stack properly" ...Meanwhile, another VIP type person is on his way to the poor programmers desk with a stack of papers tainted with RED ink. Curt -- "I used to think I was indecisive, but now I'm not so sure."

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