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Sony to Publish Aibo Specifications
teambpsi writes: "According to this CNN news report... 'In addition to the new hardware, the company has also begun publishing details of Aibo's system architecture on the Internet in an attempt to get developers to work on independent software for Aibo and generate more interest in the products.' This from the same company that used the DMCA as reported here on slashdot last fall to shutdown one fan/hack site."
I think this is true in a lot of industries. It seems like engineers inherently have this natural desire to learn more and more about anything that they can (ie "hack"). But it is the management, sales, and the b-school grads that are looking to maximize their investment.
If the world was run by engineers, I'd think we'd be a lot more advanced than where we are now. Just as a single example, OIL! Science has proven that there are more efficient alternative energy that are out there than OIL. But the big oil companies don't want to see this happen.
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...maybe this myth has a measurable reality due the fact that Windows is by default very open and lax in it's permission settings (everyone can access everything), and an admin must lock things down to ensure security, whereas Linux has everything locked down by default, and requires the admin to specificially open things up, specifying what/who has permission to access which parts of the system.
Don't even get me started on the fact that IIS (and other services) have the equivilant of 'root' access, and once compromised can more easily trash the whole server...
Whilst the stats you quote may show something -- that something certainly isn't your knowledge of security.
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