[luau] Anti-Unix Dog Food Poisoning

Ronnie T Livingston rlivings at hawaii.edu
Sat Apr 6 20:54:19 PST 2002


haha, good story.

On Sat, 6 Apr 2002, Warren Togami wrote:

> http://news.com.com/2100-1001-875884.html
>
> $25 million+ Joint advertising venture between Unisys and Microsoft.
>
> "Unix is expensive and bad!"
>
> Someone noticed that their website was running a customized version of
> Apache on FreeBSD Unix.
> http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph?site=www.wehavethewayout.com
>
> In response, Microsoft moved the site to Microsoft-IIS/5.0 on Windows 2000.
> Apparently the dog food was bad.  A few hours later, the server was cracked
> and site became unavailable.
>
> Two days later it is back online, hosted in another location.
>
> Sweet irony.  Sweet irony.
>
> http://news.com.com/2100-1001-875884.html
>
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