From: black.hole.4.spam{at}gmail.com (Don Hills)

In article , Mike N.
 wrote:
>
>  But if you're running something other than Windows, the strategy might be
>different.

Heh. I'm using OS/2. The stragegy is "security by obscurity".
This is more effective than might be supposed, because OS/2 is not only
obscure, it is actively deprecated. No-one would want to invite the scorn
of their peers by creating/releasing an exploit for OS/2. Plus it's secure
by default (no ports open as installed), and comes with an industrial grade
firewall ported from AIX.

So you take a solid multitasking OS with drivers for current mainstream
hardware, add applications like Open Office, Firefox and Thunderbird, put
it all together on a cheap, quiet and obsolete machine (this one is a 733
MHz IBM desktop that is quiet as a tomb), and voila - an Internet
Appliance. Turn it on and use it. No maintenance required, and anything
that bites it dies.

--
Don Hills    (dmhills at attglobaldotnet)     Wellington, New Zealand
"New interface closely resembles Presentation Manager,
 preparing you for the wonders of OS/2!"
    -- Advertisement on the box for Microsoft Windows 2.11 for 286

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