[Am-info] Greenpeace throws out Windows --- a social trend?

[Geoffrey]

madodel@ptdprolog.net wrote:
> In <3CE1BF57.8090201@3times25.net>, on 05/14/02 at 09:52 PM,
>    Geoffrey <esoteric@3times25.net> said:
> 
> 
>>I was talking to my Dr. the other day about the internet in general.  She
>>started asking me various questions about technical hurdles she was 
>>trying to overcome.  Anyway, I noted she indicated she had her whole 
>>network on dsl, no firewall on the gateway machine (windows 2000).  I 
>>suggested she should invest in a simple firewall, noting that she could 
>>use an old P75 with something like Linux or Freebsd.
>>
> 
> It was gross negligence on her part and that of whoever set her network up
> to have her internal LAN connected to the internet to begin with, let
> alone without any protection and running a microsoft virus proliferating
> platform to boot.  Even if that patient data doesn't ends up on a website
> somewhere, that is still a giant breach of patient confidentiality.

It was ignorance on her part as she was relying on a 'computer expert' 
who has since been dispatched...

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> 
>>She called me last week, she'd gotten cracked.  I don't have the 
>>specifics other than it was an apparent deadly effort which required the 
>>replacement of the motherboard.  Oooh nasty.  The next words our of her 
>>mouth were, when can I get that Linux firewall.
>>
> 
> The sooner the better, though she needs to rethink whether she really
> needs those machines connected to the internet.  The best firewall is to
> have separate machines for internal data that have no outside network
> access.

Yeah, I've told her that we really need to sit down and talk about how 
this network should really look, as well as the possibility of having 
two separate networks altogether.


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> Mark
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-- 
Until later: Geoffrey		esoteric@3times25.net

I didn't have to buy my radio from a specific company to listen
to FM, why doesn't that apply to the Internet (anymore...)?