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nt/2000 banned at ucsb
trc3:
I dont know if any of you have seen this but I think its funny as hell. Apparently ucsb banned nt & 2000 because they found out their a pile of shit.
quote:we have to consider the overall health of our network when dealing with vulnerable operating systems, virus protection, and network security threats.
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http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,3973,603293,00.asp
http://www.ucsbdailynexus.com/news/2002/3415.html
[ October 09, 2002: Message edited by: trc3 ]
DC:
They allow Win9x though. Well, according to /.
beltorak0:
this is good and bad. Notice that the focus was on upgrading to XP. It almost sounded like they were doing the M$ force-users-to-upgrade-by-denying-a-service tactic for M$. kinda makes me wonder....
at least they did mention linux and the like.
-t.
lazygamer:
Notice how they said that XP had less vunerabilities by default because it's not a server OS? What if W9X is similar, less vunerabilities by default?
Calum:
well i replied to the discussion topic at the extremetech one, and i gave them the url of the second one, since it has more info. Some moron told me that the url i posted was about a different incident, in fact one at Berkeley! what a mar00n! the fact that it is on the UCSBdailynexus site should have tipped him off...
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