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From: Greg Miller <gmiller@classic-games.com>
Newsgroups: nu.kanga.list.mud-dev
Date: Fri, 24 Dec 1999 01:35:00 -0600
References: [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] <-newest
Organization: Kanga.Nu
J C Lawrence wrote:
> >> Please be careful of the difference between "security" in any
> >> absolute sense, and a "reputation for security".
[me]
> > And also be careful with the difference between "reputation for
> > security" and "reputation for stability" :)
[jcl]
> Aaargh. I'll confess that I've come to think of them as almost
> synonymous in a world of DoS attacks.
Indeed. There's overlap, of course, since much of the point of security
is to prevent damage to the system's ability to function. However,
security is a large area, and I was kinda hoping to stay out of that one
for the duration of this thread. In any event, driver malfunctions and
OS bugs are far less of a problem in Win2k than they have been in the
past.
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