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Study Recommends Mac OS X as Safest OS
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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security through obscurity. Fewer AmigaOS exploits these days too.
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(i'm joking.. just couldn't resist.)
Just like the millions of clueless Windows users.
-- I'm not a pessimist, I'm a realist. It's not my fault that life sucks so much. --
In a recent addendum to the mi2g's analysis, Executive Chairman DK Matai says,
Any thinking computer professional will see that Microsoft's Longhorn Operating System has had 0 malicious security breaches over the past year. It is obscene to think that anyone with half a mind would not switch to such a secure platform. Our masterfully elaborate computer models lead us to undoubtably confirm that Microsoft's Longhorn Operating System will be the most secure Operating System until it is released, sometime in the later part of the great year 2015. At that time we believe it will experience a downward trend and will be replaced by BSD as the most securest of all Operatinginus Systamicuses around. This indisputable change will be due in large part to the unquestionable and horrifying death of the BSD platform. Indubitably.
Bah. Your manual Linux breeches are no match for my automated OS X pantaloons.
As before, the study ignores the thousands of automatically-spreading viruses for Windows.
And in other news, a new auto-safety study by the National Traffic Safety Commission has shown that SUVs are no more dangerous to drive than other types of cars. This conclusion was reached by ignoring roll-over accidents, which are due to the SUV's design, and are thus not caused by the driver.
Those who do study history are doomed to stand helplessly by while everyone else repeats it.
Well if the cops were eating Jelly donuts...
"Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival."
--Dr.W.Edwards Deming
enough I say! There needs to be the grand ultimate no holds barred OS hacker challenge! Each OS fanclub gets to put one as equal as possible machine on the net, with a provided IP. 24 hours opened to attack, no DDoS, actual penetration attacks. Set up a directory inside with a file called "hackmeplz", the hackers have to add their tag to that file to prove they were there. Hackers or hacker groups have to pre register, with a hashed sig for verification of who they be,and they are the only ones allowed to try.
And here's the twist, the fanclubs are also the hackers, they not only have to try and own the other teams boxes, they have to defend their box!
Once and for all, let's see who's got the OS and the skillz!