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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. Exactly what I was thinking by empaler · · Score: 2, Redundant

    I don't understand why anyone would publish a study that is so loosely and poorly substantiated; that would be like looking at a Syrian prison and count the number of syrians imprisoned, and then on that basis summise that "Syrians are more criminal than south africans, since there are hundreds of syrians and not a single south african." /Paven