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Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2001 08:51:07 -0800 (PST)
From: Bob Lorenzini <hwm@newportharbornet.com>
To: "Richard B. Johnson" <root@chaos.analogic.com>
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On Mon, 26 Mar 2001, Richard B. Johnson wrote:

> 
> "Effective on or before 16:00:00 local time, the only personal
> computers that will be allowed Internet access are those administered
> by a Microsoft Certified Network Administrator. This means that
> no Unix or Linux machines will be provided access beyond the local
> area network. If you require Internet access, the company will
> provide a PC which runs a secure operating system such as Microsoft
> Windows, or Windows/NT. Insecure operating systems like Linux must
> be removed from company owned computers before the end of this week....."

You might point out that only linux machines running a older version of
bind are at risk. Over one million credit card numbers were stolen from
microsoft servers in the last year. I suspect none of your linux machines
are even running bind. 

Bob

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