Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sun, 30 Sep 2001 14:41:34 -0700 | From | J Sloan <> | Subject | [OT] New Anti-Terrorism Law makes "hacking" punishable by life in prison |
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"M. Edward Borasky" wrote:
> 2. The Linux community should *not* believe that we are less vulnerable than > Microsoft! We are less vulnerable *now* only because Linux is not as > widespread as Windows.
OK, the obvious question:
If apache is 60% of the market and IIS is 25% (and I have heard that apache on Linux is about 33% of the web server market) how do you see that as windows/iis being more popular than the linux/apache platform? and yet, windows/iis has the lions share of vulnerabilities - your arguments lie in tatters....
> Were Linux, say, half of the market, the > vulnerability would be equal. The difference is strictly the number of > available hosts for these parasitic codes, not anything inherent in the > details of Windows or Linux, or in the organizational mechanisms (corporate > giant vs. "brutal meritocracy", closed source vs. open source, etc.).
I think Unix's long history of multiuser, networked operation gives it quite a bit more sophistication in areas of security, as opposed to windows, a single user system which has in the past few years become widely networked.
I'm not saying Linux/Unix users should rest on their laurels or be lulled into a sense of false security, but come on, let's at least be realistic about the very real advantages of Unix OSes over PC OSes in this area.
cu
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