The World's Safest Operating System

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The World's Safest Operating System

Posted by CowboyNeal on Saturday February 21, 2004 @05:21AM 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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Of course by damiam · 2004-02-21 05:22 · Score: 4, Funny

Why would anyone want to crack a Windows box? It'd be completely useless to you.

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Consider the source by ABaumann · 2004-02-21 05:23 · Score: 4, Funny

MACWORLD says that MACS are the most secure. Hmm... Interesting.
And in unrelated news by redmond · 2004-02-21 05:29 · Score: 4, Funny

Microsoft announces acquition of the UK-based security firm mi2g.

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No, VMS, Multics, and VIC-20 are more secure by plcurechax · 2004-02-21 05:47 · Score: 4, Funny

With no reported vulnrenabilities according to mi2g, these OSes are far more secure than that run of mill *BSD stuff.
They are wrong... by Bull999999 · 2004-02-21 05:49 · Score: 4, Funny

My Play Station 2 has never been hacked so it makes PS2 the most secure O/S.

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Re:What if Windows were found most vulnerable? by nomadic · 2004-02-21 06:12 · Score: 4, Funny

Oooooh...

cabal of liars that masquerade as "researchers" does not alter the facts.

I love that word. Cabal. You see it so rarely in everyday life. I'm going to start using it more.
Re:Fun and games with statistics by SenorMooCow · 2004-02-21 06:31 · Score: 4, Funny

...wasted on time you could have been patching Linux.

I don't believe that the majority of the linux hacks were due to flaws in the operating system as much as they were probably caused by misconfigurations by the people setting up those systems. Windows, on the other hand, comes with lots of holes built right in for you; no user intervention required!

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Re:Overt vs Covert by canajin56 · 2004-02-21 06:34 · Score: 5, Funny
Hmmm, lets do some in-depth research of our own, then: Slashdot poll!

The last thing I hacked was:
- *BSD
- Linux
- OSX
- Windows
- Unix
- Teh Gibson!
I'm sure it would be at least as accurate ;)
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Re:Fun and games with statistics by ZigiSamblak · 2004-02-21 07:13 · Score: 5, Funny

You got it all wrong, there's no problems or hacks in Windows. Coming pre-hacked is a feature!
Re:Overt vs Covert by TMB · 2004-02-21 08:06 · Score: 5, Funny

The last thing I hacked was Cowboy Neal.
Re:Why is this a surprise? by WebMasterJoe · 2004-02-21 08:38 · Score: 4, Funny

clue_bat.apply(linux_users)
Ok, you can't make fun of "Linux zealots" if you end you slashdot posts with pseudo function calls. The girls in gym class are really going to kick your ass in dodgeball for this next Monday.

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Re:Overt vs Covert by ted_nugent · 2004-02-21 10:05 · Score: 5, Funny

You stay out of Cowboy Neal's backdoor!

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Re:Overt vs Covert by Anonymous Coward · 2004-02-21 13:27 · Score: 4, Funny

Ladies and gentlemen, the end of the world has arrived. Debian has been criticised because it's too easy to install. :)