: Uh, have I missed something here? We run a SCO system as a gateway to
: the great untamed wilderness (along with a screening router). Is
: there some canonical list of problems that makes a SCO system a poor
: choice for this type of machine? Why should *anyone* in the back be
: giggling? :-o Have I left my company wide open to some malicious
: geek's attack due to SCO and their stupidity? Info, please.
in the past there were some (relatively well publicised) security holes in SCO
systems. all of the known ones have now been plugged. if you are using odt
3.0 (or it's constituent parts) then there are no outstanding problems.
you are right to be using some form of wrapper on your interfaces. i added
the `humorous' comment to avoid appearing fatuous in saying that it was no
better or worse, as SCO has taken some flack for it's TCP over the past few
years.
apologies if i set anyone panicing.
dave.
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