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Weekly Microsoft Critical Security Issue
An anonymous reader sent in linkage to a zd story discussing the latest Windows Security Patches including an especially nice hole letting Java apps gain total control of your machine and assist you in reclaiming disk space by, say, reformating your drive.
So? Does this mean that they have found Java applets on the web that actually are not intended to be malicious?
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Because linux is no more secure, despite what you read here on slashdot or other zealot forums.
The samba root exploit, and the ability to brute force the root password via swat, went a decade without being patched. They were exploited endlessly.
The 'thousand monkeys at a thousand keyboards' approach to Open Source software is no more effective than piecewise regression testing at a commercial house.
In short, Windows still dominates the desktop because security-wise, there's nothing else for the x86 architecture to beat it, and feature-wise, it reigns supreme.
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too bad you stole the headline from HardOcp
I hate sigs.
Oh good Lord. Somebody get me a shovel. Yes, Microsoft maliciously put a gaping hole in the software, which 99.9% of the people using it attribute as a failure on MS's part, and another security strike against them, just to say Java is bad.
I've seen a lot of whining on Slashdot about the FUD MS spews, but this kind of garbage, and the people that mod it as interesting, do a good bit worse.
Next up, the person who says the linux kernel has a hole in its FAT support to make MS look bad...oh wait. That'll get modded down because it's ludicrous.
Wow, that's quite a mouthful. Am I getting your panties all in a bunch?
Debian tracks over three thousand packages
*chuckle* You keep repeating that like it's some sort of Higher Truth. Do you bang your head against the keyboard every time you say "three thousand packages"?
Microsft tracks a handful of packages
The fallacy in your "point" is obvious, yet you can't bring yourself to see its inherent stupidity. Microsoft doesn't "track packages". It sells an operating system. It doesn't include "GNUChess" and they don't give you an rpm for it. The fact that Debian does that is besides the point. Asserting that Debian is "more secure" than Windows is about as stupid as saying that your house is more secure than mine, even though yours has 50 doors and mine has only two. But hey, you use lots of locks. That's so, well, stunningly stupid, it hurts.
So you see now how much more secure debian is then windows?
If you keep repeating that over and over again maybe you'll eventually believe it. Good luck!
Is that still too hard for you to follow?
No. Like I said, I have trouble following your monkey logic.
Right. Perhaps if you tried to educate yourself first your heroic efforts would actually pan out.