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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."
There was a paper by Brian Kernighan in the August 1979 Bell Labs Journal that predicted that this would be the case....wonder why everyone is so surprised
I am not saying that your english is funny, i am merely saying that if your english was not funny you couldnt write this :)
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BSD is open, too. It's not about open, it's about a shitty article.
That's funny, because this one app called explorer always crashes my windows box.
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I was surprised to see CowboyNeal as the poster.If it were Taco or Timothy, I would assume that this is a dupe. This is more Michael's style. Post a troll article. Comment in the discussion. Mod dissent down. Lather. Rinse. Repeat.
Comparing it to Windows will be a moot point, since El Dorado is going to have a 40% larger code base than XP.
Do you know of a better way to deploy an operating system than using a distribution?
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The SQL slammer worm was an exploit in MS's SQL server, not Windows, and it was one that was patched MONTHS before the exploit made it into the wild. It was the fault of sysadmins that didn't do their fucking job that it got so big (SoBig?). In case you don't remember, MS had issued an alert months before stating that the easiest way to eliminate the possibility of attack was to CLOSE A FUCKING PORT. But there were a few hundred thousand people that didn't bother patching their systems OR closing all non-essential ports (two grounds for dismissal, IMO).
This is NOT a dumbass way to conduct a study. It is a study on the vulnerability of OS's against SPECIFIC attacks, not generalized attacks such as worms. Can you get this through your thick Linux-spooging-on skulls? What we have here is significant evidence of a PROBLEM. Scoff all you want, but this needs to be looked at NOW.
'Standards' in computing only impress those who are impressed by things like 'standards'.
If I had a nickel for every study that told me it had proven something unpleasant that was going to rock my world any day now, and then two months later heard about another, even more reliable study that proved the exact opposite, I would have one hell of a lot of nickels.
There are lies, damn lies, and statistics.
And yeah, computers are hard. Big news.
Now try posting on some Christian Coalition blog: "Satan not so bad after all, says new study"
Whatever.
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God, I want to cry. I thought slashdot was supposed to be for people who were at least interested in science. Silly me.
Linux servers are cracked most often because they are the most common type, you slack jawed drooling morons.
Next let's add percentages together, won't that be fun?