Robin Miller says he and some friends may have stumbled upon an effective way to keep Web sites secure: Run them on obsolete OSes. He explains:
Brian points out that some of the most secure Department of Defense Web sites -- ones that don't make headlines by getting cracked all the time -- run old versions of Mac OS and the venerable WebSTAR server suite. "[Mac is] a great operating system for that application," he says. "No scripting or remote capability at all, so there's no way for them to get in."Via Slashdot. Back to CompendiumNot only that, the hacker/cracker crowd is fixating, as usual, on the latest versions of everything, like Windows 2K/XP, Mac OS X, the most recent Linux kernels and BSDs, the newest Solaris, and so on. What fun is there in breaking into a system running something so ancient only a dad would even consider using it?
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