[TriLUG] Ubuntu - great security - you'll love this

Ian Kilgore ian at trilug.org
Mon Mar 13 19:12:47 EST 2006


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Matt West wrote:
| You do have to give them some credit. Just think about how long it
| would take Microsoft to update something like that, if they ever
| would.

Actually, IIRC, they did do something like that a few years ago with SQL
server.  Writing the password in plaintext in the installer log.  I
think (*think*!  I have no idea whatsoever.  This is a foggy memory that
may or may not be accurate.  If ingested, call a search engine.) that
the patch came a month later.
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