Re: Macintosh Web Server Issues

• To: www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
• Subject: Re: Macintosh Web Server Issues
• From: "Bradley C. Spatz" <bcs@cis.ufl.edu>
• Date: Tue, 14 May 1996 08:45:24 EDT
• In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 13 May 1996 23:31:31 PDT."

+-- daver@idiom.com (David Ray), writes: 
|
| Macintosh is inherently more secure than Unix or DOS based systems because
| there is no Unix shell or DOS prompt to execute commands from.

	"If ... it seems easier to subvert UNIX systems than most other
	systems, the impression is a false one.  The subversion techniques
	are the same.  It is just that it is often easier to write, install,
	and use programs on UNIX systems than on most other systems, and that
	is why the UNIX system was designed in the first place."
                                -- Frederick T. Grampp & Robert H. Morris

A table saw can hurt you in more ways than a simple hand saw, but that's
part of the tradeoff of using powerful tools.  

Regards.
--
Bradley C. Spatz	http://www.afn.org/~bcs/	bcs@afn.org

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