"In response to the woefully misleading ZDnet article, 'Mac OS X hacked under 30 minutes', the academic Mac OS X Security Challenge has been launched. The ZDnet article, and almost all of the coverage of it, failed to mention a very critical point: anyone who wished it was given a local account on the machine (which could be accessed via ssh). The challenge is as follows: simply alter the web page on this machine, test.doit.wisc.edu. The machine is a Mac mini (PowerPC) running Mac OS X 10.4.5 with Security Update 2006-001, has two local accounts, and has ssh and http open - a lot more than most Mac OS X machines will ever have open."
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Member since:2005-11-10
Actually they first started using Akamai after Web developers sharply criticized the design of Microsoft's DNS network after significant outages hit the company's sites. The servers were configured into the same section of Microsoft's corporate network, meaning that if that section failed, no back-up system was available to handle data traffic.
Also they were hired by Microsoft to back up one of its server networks and alleviate the hacker attacks that blocked traffic to Microsoft Web sites
They further moved data and traffic to Akamai after the Windows update servers started DOSing due to the blaster worm a couple years back.
Had nothing to do with saving money, they could not do the job themselves to they turned to the experts. LOL! Just happens that Unix and Linux are the best OS's for these tasks.
Edited 2006-03-07 01:00
Member since:2005-07-06
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2005-07-06
They go to akamai ebcause it saves them money, nothing more.