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The World's Safest Operating System

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the torturing-the-data-until-it-confesses dept.

fredrikr writes "UK-based security firm mi2g has analyzed 17,074 successful digital attacks against servers and networks. The results are a bit surprising. The BSD OSes (including FreeBSD and Mac OS X) proved to be the systems least likely to be successfully cracked, while Linux servers were the most vulnerable. Linux machines suffered 13,654 successful attacks, or 80 percent of the survey total. Windows based servers enjoyed a sharp decline in successful breaches, with only 2,005 attacks."

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  1. Re:What if Windows were found most vulnerable? by jedidiah · · Score: 3, Flamebait

    Linux may have it's problems. However, it is still more secure than WinDOS. A cabal of liars that masquerade as "researchers" does not alter the facts.

    Claiming that FreeBSD is more secure than Linux is simply not news.

    Claiming that Win32 is more secure than Linux is simply absurd.

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