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6 Months On, Vista Security Still Besting Linux
Martin writes "Great report on security vulnerabilities for MS/Linux/OS X. This is a revised version of the one Jeff Jones did back on March 21: Windows Vista — 90 Day Vulnerability Report. This time he did what the Linux community had asked. Everyone complained that he did the report based on a full Linux distro including optional components, not on just a base OS install. So this time he did both; Vista still came out on top. I was shocked that Apple was even on the list as I believed all those Mac commercials!"
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Except for ending slavery, the Nazis, communism, & securing American independence, war has never solved anything.
It's blame shifting.
It's easy to implement some "security" that is based on asking the user a second time whenever he moves the mouse if he REALLY wanted to move the mouse, and blame him should something bad come out of this movement. So a user getting a rootkit slipped under his ass can be blamed on the user clicking yes, not that there is no distinct difference between user and system space. A trojan's success can be blamed on the user clicking ok, not on debug functions being available on a release system.
That's no security, that's bullshitting the user into thinking it's his fault.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
I bet more people are using Vista than Linux. If you remove all servers (personal included) and only count desktop installs I bet linux has a smaller install base than windows 95.