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defacto7

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3. Maybe a version of Linux would give you
Wed Jul 16, 2014, 10:31 PM
Jul 2014

a little more confidence. Without sounding like a pitch, ha, I've been free of security difficulties for as long as I remember... no hacks, no intrusions, no worms nothing and I pretty much control what goes in and out as far as data. Oh, I get hit thousands of times a day on my servers, mostly from China but no problems yet.

You've worked in the MS systems division, that's cool. I'll have to say I never had any difficulties cracking into Win98, 2000 or XP. I worked with a couple of networks with a couple hundred machines each and people would get themselves locked out all the time on their secure machines or personal machines or got hit with some virus. I load in a Linux shell and 99% of the time I was in within 3 minutes. The other times I just used that little UNIX shell that comes with all the MS distros that no one seems to know was there except some tecs and that was my backdoor so to speak. I don't mean the repair shell I mean the one below that. I wonder if M$ still has that shell in the new distros? I haven't used MS in so long I really don't know what's in there.

It's too bad security is such an issue, I wish it were not. It makes business for someone though.

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