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| Authored by: jesse on Friday, March 22 2013 @ 11:11 AM EDT |
Is also true.
Not to mention the fame you receive for identifying the vulnerability and
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, March 22 2013 @ 11:31 AM EDT |
"Exploits are easier to find if you have the source!"
True, which means that they're almost all patched up by now.
Also, Linux/BSD machines are generally the high-value targets for people: They
have the massive processing power, they have the biggest internet pipes, and
they run the biggest databases of people.
Also, Linux folks tend to _*respond*_ to security vunerabilities. And the
turnaround time is what? a week or two? Compared to MSWindows, which still has
zero-day vunerabilities in it.
All in all, there's a reason that LAMP is the default web server. It's more
secure, and more stable. (And I'm pretty sure there's some causation in there,
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, March 22 2013 @ 11:59 AM EDT |
You state:
'Operator error' is the prime
cause of security
issues.
When it comes to most non-windows os' I'd agree.
But
windows was originally built from the ground up to be single user, no security
required.
All the security applied have been patch-on bandaids that don't
fix the underlying security issues of the OS.
How many times have we read
about the IE exploits that allow an external party to take admin access of the
windows machine - specifically those ones where Microsoft admits they affect all
versions of IE... not just a particular IE on a particular version of the
OS.
Please point to a single instance of a browser security error on
Unix/Linux that would allow an external party to take root access of the
machine.
Just one please.
RAS[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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