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Re: Ipv6 vulnerability explained

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On Monday 18 July 2011 17:54 in comp.os.linux.networking, BigRedTruck 
enlightened humanity with the following words...:

> In depth discussion, of the Microsoft IPV6 flaw/virus/exploit, and
> several potential protection avenues.
> 
> My choice is simply to dump anything Microsoft, as I did in 1997, and
> choose GNU/Linux, ( Linuxmint.com ), one of the BSDs, as has Microsoft
> corporation, beginning with the Hotmail acquisition in 1997!
> 
> Now, all MSN and Hotmail servers run Linux or BSD. 

No, not anymore.  This was the case when Microsoft acquired Hotmail, but 
then somewhere in the early 2000s they converted evertything to NT 4.0 
and Windows 2000.  That's why things went grossly wrong over at Hotmail.  
Service unavailability, exploits, you name it.

> All Microsoft update servers, and all tech. support lines are behind
> Linux servers!

I seriously doubt that, because that's not Microsoft's style.  However, 
they are probably using GNU/Linux for firewalling, that much is true.  
And they do have a "Linux Lab", where they try to figure out how to 
steal ideas frm GNU/Linux (or FOSS in general) for reimplementation in 
their own products without anyone noticing it.

This is exactly why they have released Hyper-V as GPL'd.  They got 
caught red-handed while hard-linking a GPL'd network driver in Hyper-V.  
They then put a spin on that story and claimed that they were releasing 
Hyper-V under the GPL in order to allow the Linux kernel to run on 
Hyper-V.  The Hyper-V support code was briefly adopted in the mainline 
Linux kernel, but from then on Microsoft no longer seemed interested in 
maintaining the code, and eventually the code was dropped from the Linux 
kernel again.

Microsoft and GPL do not mix.  The GPL goes against everything Microsoft 
stands for, which is the leveraging of power - yes, power, not money.

> MS leases 15,000 Akamai Linux servers, runs 400 Aruba Linux
> firewall/routers on the MS Corp. network.

Now _that_ is true.

> The MS development lab sports over 500 Linux workstations.

I'm not sure on the numbers, but yes, they have what they term a "Linux 
Lab".  But their intent is of course not to develop Free Software, or 
software that runs in GNU/Linux.  Their intent is to try and steal from 
GNU/Linux, and possibly to look for leverage for patent trolling, 
although the odds to that must be very small or else they would already 
have done that by now.

> Microsoft runs on Professional grade OSes BSD and GNU/Linux.

Not microsoft.com itself, but they do have GNU/Linux and BSD machines, 
that's true.

-- 
Aragorn
(registered GNU/Linux user #223157)

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Ipv6 vulnerability explained BigRedTruck <pberry2@cfl.rr.com> - 2011-07-18 11:54 -0400
  Re: Ipv6 vulnerability explained Xavier Roche <xroche@free.fr.NOSPAM.invalid> - 2011-07-18 20:21 +0200
    Re: Ipv6 vulnerability explained KR <kristian.rasmussen@broadpark.no.spam.com> - 2011-07-18 20:37 +0200
      Re: Ipv6 vulnerability explained Aragorn <stryder@telenet.be.invalid> - 2011-07-19 02:57 +0200
  Re: Ipv6 vulnerability explained Aragorn <stryder@telenet.be.invalid> - 2011-07-19 02:49 +0200
    Re: Ipv6 vulnerability explained "Charlie Gibbs" <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2011-07-20 08:15 -0800
      Re: Ipv6 vulnerability explained Aragorn <stryder@telenet.be.invalid> - 2011-07-27 19:11 +0200

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