[ubuntu-in] Gloat Gloat

[Jkhatri]

On 01/19/2010 11:12 AM, Ravi Kumar wrote:
> Hey Ram,
>
> First of all, nothing is secure - this is the key.
>
> No Idea what MS IE 8 has in terms of security.
> But I totally agree with you, India is not really geared towards 
> progress in atleast IT. Politicians, who are just about to die like a 
> over-ripped mangoes on tree, who never used computer decide the thing. 
> Also, many times I got the impression that the person in power to 
> decide/sign these govt implementations in IT are just influenced by 
> who is the repr, and what dream are shown to their eye$$.
>
> Almost all the things that are any-way directly connected to Govt lacks:
>
>     * Proper Implementation
>     * Even Half completion
>     * No creativity
>     * ... too many, i am running out of time.
>
>
> Indian Govt needs some fresh people. From different professions. Not 
> for administration, but to suggest them and show them the mighty 
> light. Well, what we can do, just wait, wait and wait till these 
> mangoes just drop off th tree.
> They invest $$$$$ for MS Office package. Why they don't use OOo, maybe 
> they don't know. They don't trust. OOo.org can't pay hefty sum to the 
> decision maker in govt body. Jyotish-shastra predicted not to use the 
> Office package brand starting with O.
>
> They spent on products, whereas they should have invested in research 
> and implmentation for a secure environment and data storage using 
> Opensource.
> You may not be knowing, most govt controlled/attached/funded centers 
> use MS Word to create their webpage, and they just host. :) This just 
> get me pissed on even thinking about it. But hey, India is great and 
> will be a SuperPower in next 15 years. That is what they are busy 
> calculating.
>
> On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 9:05 AM, Ramnarayan.K <ramnarayan.k at gmail.com 
> <mailto:ramnarayan.k at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Hi
>
>     couldn't resist have a laugh about who all are vulnerable to various
>     M$ based vulneabilities
>
>     1. China tried to hack our computers: MK Narayanan
>     http://news.oneindia.in/2010/01/18/china-tried-to-hack-our-computers-nsa-mk-narayan.html
>     Snippet "The hackers reportedly launched an attack using a 'Trojan'
>     virus in order to access the computer remotely and download of delete
>     files".
>
>     Trust india's most sensitive stuff to not just be vulnerable to
>     virus's attacks , guess they won't ever learn, that there are better
>     ways than M$ to use computers and be relatively safe without much
>     effort.
>
>     2. German government warns against using MS Explorer
>     http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8463516.stm
>     snippet "Microsoft rejected the warning, saying that the risk to users
>     was low and that the browsers' increased security setting would
>     prevent any serious risk.However, German authorities say that even
>     this would not make IE fully safe. "
>
>     Finally the icing on the cake even the french are
>     3. France joins Germany warning against Internet Explorer
>     snippet Certa, a government agency that oversees cyber threats, warned
>     against using all versions of the web browser"
>
>     the the MS guys make a joke "But Microsoft told BBC News that IE8 was
>     the "most secure browser on the market" and people should upgrade. "
>
>     **
>     wow what f****king arrogance first you allow people to get vulnerable
>     and then tell them to buy / get yet another piece of shit.
>
>
>     anyways good to know that some of us atleast sleep peacefully at night
>     and our worries are not about is my data safe
>
>     So Linuxeros and Ubunteros i think we have earned the right to
>     gloat a bit ;-)
>
>     ram
>
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