"My nan could crack NT!: VNUnet
NT security is so "poor" that NT "hackers" are now considers lamerz. Recently one hacker proclaimed "my nan could crack NT" (see linked VNUnet article.)
Not because the hacking society is changing its ways and developing a conscience, rather because its too damn easy to be considered a notch in the belt.
All of the recent major security "issues" including credit card numbers getting out and other customer information being stolen have involved NT (and either ancient exploits that have not be patched by site admins or new exploits that are not yet patched, either way, stuff gets away from NT boxes.)
NT is a joke, when ever I surf to a site and want to spend some money I make sure its not running IIS. If it is I generally send an email of "concern" to the site owners and shop elsewhere.
Its true, there are so many holes in NT it literally takes about 10 minutes to hack serious sites. Get a clue Internet world. Regardless of how neat it is and how shiny the box is, NT is not intended for Internet usage. Use on your intranet, great, not on a public site.
All the problems that the "Internet" has with security are more often than not just sloppy Microsoft work. NT has given the net itself a bad name.
How often are machines that are compromised BSD or Linux boxes (I dont know the percentages, but this rhetorical question has a clear overall answer, a lot less than NT.) We all need to demand better and demand that sites we visit and shop do better. Until Microsoft can prove NT security, beyond a doubt (and yes the burden is on them, even more so than any other server vendor, because of all of the problems their software has had) no responsible Internet site should use it as a server.
Its obvious that Microsoft is not going to strive to do better, these problems are rampant in their products and have been so for years, we as consumers (at the end user and commerical site owner levels) must make better choices and force the evolution of Internet security away from Microsoft. http://www.vnunet.com/News/1120308
