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Study Recommends Mac OS X as Safest OS

Posted by michael on from the safety-first dept.

rocketjam writes "The British security firm mi2g has concluded a comprehensive 12-month study to identify the safest 24/7 computing environment. In the end, the open source BSD and Mac OS X came out on top with the fewest security breaches against permanently connected machines worldwide in homes, small businesses, large enterprises and governments. The study found Linux to be the most breached environment 'in terms of manual hacker attacks overall and accounts for 65.64% of all breaches recorded'. Windows was the most breached environment in government computing and led Linux, BSD and Mac OS X by far in economic damage caused by breaches." We mentioned their previous study too. As before, the study ignores the thousands of automatically-spreading viruses for Windows.

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  1. Re:mandatory windows poke by mios · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    No, not overzealous ... correct mac users ...

  2. Re:Manual breaches... by overbom · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    sorry, pal.

    os x is the most deployed unix-like os in the world. linux has not yet caught up, though it probably will in the next year or so.

  3. This "study" is pointless by Donny+Smith · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    What the hell does that mean?

    *If* one left a computer on the Internet accessible to all kinds of hackers, then blah blah blah

    Things like that never happen (what sane person would do that). You want a secure firewall - you get a real firewall (or one of those firewall on floppy thingies). You want a secure server in DMZ? Pretty much any OS will do.
    You want a secure desktop on LAN? Almost the same - with little precautions taken. It certainly doesn't require a BSD or Mac.

  4. Re:No FPU... OpenBSD Not Working (offtopic) by multipartmixed · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    I've never bothered trying to do this, but I'd hazard a pretty safe guess that gcc has some kind of "soft FPU" compilation options, which you could then use to rebuild your kernel, C library, and whatever else is going to flip out due to the lack of FPU support.

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  5. Wow, too many haters here... by Warlock7 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Oh, no. That can't be. It's not possible. I know better. This is all a bunch of garbage.

    Is the /. community just a bunch of ridiculous children, or what?

    So many with such an inordinate amount of intolerance is truly disturbing.

    Is this somehow a threat to that obviously fragile sense of superiority that there needs to be such a backlash about a little article. Does this really affect any of you directly? Sounds like everybody wants to whip out a ruller and compare their genitals. It's a very sad state of affairs seeing this kind of outrage and self-association.