Bush V. Kerry Websites
Richard M. Smith· performed security audits· of the official George Bush and John Kerry websites; the results were posted· on Declan McCullagh’s Politech· list. Both sites come up short in many ways, but Kerry is the clear winner for choice of technology:
It appears that the open source vs. closed source debate has also entered the presidential campaign. The Kerry home page comes from an Apache Web server running on a Red Hat Linux box. The Bush Web site on the other hand is hosted on a more corporate Microsoft-powered IIS 5.0 server and uses ASP.NET. I did not check to see if this IIS server is up to date with Microsoft security patches.
(yet another entry that should really be filed under multiple categories; “politics->electoral” and “free software->politics.”)