Security FUD On Linux

bobmatnyc writes "InfoWorld reports that Microsoft is planning an "security assault on Linux" by hyping results of a commissioned study pointing to the number of security holes in Linux vs. Windows, the number of days it takes to fill the patches, and by raising questions as to the reliability of code submitted throught the OS process. I suppose if they focus very narrowly on one measurement of security, completely ignore script-level vulnerabilities, default settings vulnerabilities (such as root access for all users), and the demographics of the user population, as well as a zillion other things I'm not clever enough to think of off the top of my head, they may have a point. "

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It would not come as a shock

[Progman3K]

It would not come as a shock if we found out MS was behind the attempt to add a root exploit to the Linux kernel that happened last week...

http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/11/06/0582 49 &mode=thread&tid=106&tid=185

Just what lows are they willing to sink to?

Or am I just paranoid?

Let's see, a corporation that stands to lose hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue to an open-source collective effort...

If I were MS, I know I'd be afraid and might even do something like that....

Has there been any new information on the security breach?