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On 20/10/10 22:29, Guy Backhouse wrote:
On Wed, 2010-10-20 at 21:07 +0100, Gibbs wrote:On 20/10/10 19:20, Paul Sutton wrote:Hi now that we are starting to see the extent of budget cuts do you think as a lug we can ALL step up a gear and get public services onto Open source as a long term strategy, perhaps the savings will offset some of the cuts in services that are coming up I know some of us are doing this, but I am looking at the whole lug to do this, after all its you're local services that are going to get the chop possibly, PaulFor me it depends on what the £1,000,000,000+ on "cyber security" equates too. GibbsDefinition of; 'Cyber Security' - A means of depriving the people of their (tax) monies that could be used to avoid a lot of the stringent cuts yet is claimed to be needed, the people will have no clue as to what it 'equates to' or for that matter how most of it is spent!! Guy
I think this is all arse about face. Windows is insecure because its easy to use.It is possible to run pretty secure windows - you just take away from the users all the lies that MS told them and use sensible security settings. The users will complain like mad and not be able to use their machines - unfortunately some of the users will be higher than you in the food chain and you will be beaten to a pulp for telling the truth. I'd be interested to see how it is to manage a linux network of PC's in a 'business' role and see how users react to not being able to do anything they damn want NOW!!!! and hang the consequences. I think linux, run like windows, will soon be inundated with worms/virii etc and we may find MS has lowered the bar to the point we're all going to be banging our heads on it every time we move.
We can still run pretty secure web services tho... Tom te tom te tom -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq