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Originally Posted by willravel
BTW, lemme know who threatened her. A Mac may be impossible to get into but even a noob like me can get into many Windows machines.  |
Really? You can hack into a Windows machine? I'd like to see you do it.
Honestly, there are VERY few people who can "hack into" any OS. The problem is what is running on the server ... not the OS.
I think you'll need to do some studying about what hacking is. As the sysadmin (8 years) of a small college I can count the number of times we've been "hacked" on one hand:
1 - A Solaris 8 box was compromised; why? User error. It was a wide-open telnet server that was set up by a faculty member so he could connect to it from home.
That's it. Solaris != Windows either.
We have 40+ Windows 2003 servers ... none have been compromised as long as I've been here. I watch the IPAudit logs(a program that runs on top of MRTG on Redhat 7.3 box); I watch the firewall logs; I watch the Packeteer and Nitro (packet shaping devices) logs ... I see SCADS of attempts to infiltrate our network. None of them succeed.
The fact is that "reward" for hacking a OSX Server is just a marketing ploy. No hardened system can EASILY be hacked (including Windows) ... Note: I said EASILY ... I didn't say it couldn't be done. A n00b would have a hard time at it.