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MS Security Chief Says Windows is Safer Than Linux
Kip Winger writes "Mike Nash, Microsoft's Chief Security Executive, has made claims that Windows is more secure than Linux. In a recent online chat, he staunchly defended Microsoft's record on security, basing part of his argument on how Windows Server 2003's 15 patches in the past year are far less than what RedHat or SuSE have had to endure." He also mentioned the recent purchase of Sybari and their Antivirus product.
when the machine is turned off.
My linux computer is so over run with spyware and viruses that it is completely unusable and it is firewalled.
I connect my fresh installed XP system directly to the internet and I can go months before I get any malicous programs on my computer.
hmm, or do I have that backwards?
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... I need to approve the new MS patches on the SUS server.
I think we need a new section for these stories. I propose we call it 'Flamebait'.
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...when the world stopped laughing, it was revealed this person might have some sort of conflict of interest, being that he works for MS and all....
Earlier this week, they released a slew of patches... 6 or 7 of them that affected XP SP2 and were rated critical. Perhaps they feel inadequate in comparision to Red Hat, et al and have some catching up to do?
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iBill not paying it's custumers. This guy says for almost 4 months since ww.com has been paid.
In other news: North Korea announced it will cooperate with US and destroy its nuclear warheads as well as open access to inspectors from the West.
You mistyped "Unsurprisingly".
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when put behind a baffling series of hardware and software firewalls destroying all connectivity with said Windows machine
There's nothing baffling about pulling the ethernet plug.
"A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of" - Ogden Nash
Me too, except they can't afford to pay that kind of money.
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I saw the title of this while taking a sip of my morning Caffene, and nearly sprayed my notebook. As it is the dribble of soda from my nose is causing me great pain.
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Perfect, let's start rating the security of our products by how many patches have been written and applied. What does this kind of numbers game encourage?
(1) Don't write a patch, since that admits failure or insecure products.
or
(2) Wait a long time before writing and committing a patch, so you can do it as "one big patch" (otherwise known as, haha, a Service Pack!).
Thanks Microsoft! Just your STATEMENTS make systems less secure (nevermind your engineering).
The lecturer was, apparently, talking about the problems in writing mission-critical embedded devices, and at one point he asks his audience: "You all write embedded systems software. Tell me honestly; if your company wrote the software for a 747, how many of you would actually feel comfortable on board one?"
One hand goes up.
"You, sir! You're so confident in your software you'd trust your life to it?"
"Hell, no," comes the reply. "But any plane running my team's software would never crash, because it'd never get off the ground..."
I am confident in the level of safety given by running Windows on a mission-critical device.
Isn't this a bit like claiming you are more healthy than someone else, because you've been to the hospital 40 days this year for your last-ditch chemotherapy? "Look at linux, it hasn't seen a doctor in over 10 years!".
That analogy is much more appropriately applied to Windows. "Look at IE, it hasn't seen a patch in 10 months!"
"Of course, we didn't evaluate them with the network cables plugged in. We didn't want the Internet to skew our results. There's some dangerous shit out there."
you slashfolks should make up your minds... does a windows distribution contain a "handful" of programs? or do they bundle too many programs? please clarify
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I just like the fact that Slashdot have published this story using their classy "babyshit" stylesheet.
Code, Hardware, stuff like that.
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HTH.
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SCO has fixed 0 vulnerabilities in the last year
Microsoft has fixed 15.
SCO is flawless...
> a fair comparison would be only counting the patches to the kernel
Guess that excludes IE from MS patches then
MS employee says Windows is safer because using Linux puts him in danger of being fired.