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Re: on the university problem
From: Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu
Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2007 12:16:46 -0400
On Mon, 13 Aug 2007 11:51:09 EDT, Alex Eckelberry said:
site:.edu or site:.gov as operators. It's clear it's far, far more of a problem in the .edu space than at least .gov, largely because of the reasons everyone knows (unpatched open source, etc.).
I don't think that "unpatched open source" is anywhere on the radar as a reason here. In both .edu and .gov spaces, unpatched Microsoft is a much bigger problem than unpatched open source (unless there's been some major tectonic plate shift and less than 90% of the boxes are Microsoft now). The *top* reason is probably that a higher percentage of .gov machines are on (semi-)private networks and/or behind fascist firewalls than .edu machines, because large chunks of .gov space have a mindset of "secrecy", while large areas of .edu space are about "sharing information".
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