Reliance On MS A Danger To National Security

An anonymous reader writes "A panel of leading security experts Wednesday blasted Microsoft for vulnerabilities in its software, and warned that reliance on the Redmond, Wash.-based developer's software is a danger to both enterprises and national security." (Even OpenBSD might be bad if it was the only game in town.) M : The report (pdf) makes good reading.

Comments

Other OS's Much Better?

[tarnin]

I'll probably get moded down to troll or flaimbait but really, how much better are any other OS? On the heels of the two OpenSSH and the sendmail exploit, this comes out. Arn't OpenSSH and sendmail both *nix based programs? Yes, the actual OS itself isnt to blame in this circumstance but don't these tools come stock with most *nix distros?

Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying that M$ shouldn't be held liable for the craptastic OS that it spews out all the time but really, how much worse is it security wise vanilla compaired to a vanilla install of any other os? If I remember correctly, after installing redhat 9 the other day, 2 hrs of d/ling for patchs commenced to update all the packages on it.

"Linux most attacked server"

[Overly Critical Guy]

I find the whole thing very strange considering Slashdot itself posted the study about how Linux is the most breached OS on the net.

But every day is I-hate-Microsoft day at Slashdot.