[Ilugc] [ILUG-C][OT] On matters of national security and open source
- From: knura9@xxxxxxxxx (Arun Khan)
- Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2011 10:46:28 +0530
On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 7:22 AM, Yogesh Girikumar <yogeshg1987 at gmail.com>
wrote:
How would you all like to contribute to an open letter asking the Union Home
Ministry, The National informatics agency, and the like to start using open
source instead of proprietary software? It's a shame that most sites
including those of National investigation agency, National security guards (
both were hacked very recently ), etc still use IIS. Seriously, IIS? And
heaven knows why there was data in those servers that could be "siphoned
off". So I was thinking writing an open letter to those douc***ags in plain
english on what this is all about and how and why they should rethink about
using proprietary software that rely on security by obscurity.
Please share your views.
My PoV.
1. No software is bug free.
2. There is no substitute for competent System/Network Admins, DBAs,
Pen testing etc. irrespective of the OS platform.
3. The org must have policies w.r.t to system (hw and sw) maintenance.
Points 2 and 3 were severely lacking in the DR situations that I have
been involved in, which BTW were Unix/Linux servers.
IMO, you should make a case for points 2 and 3 rather than making a
case against any specific product.
My two cents.
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Arun Khan
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