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OS Vulnerabilities
Posted by Paul Szynol on Saturday, November 09 @ 16:26:41 EST OpenSource
mi2g has concluded that Windows OS contains more security vulnerabilities than either Linux or Mac OS X. The report, which lives here, accounts for market share percentages.

mi2g's report also reiterates two, principal advantages of open source.

First, Windows consumers have to wait for Microsoft to release patches that address security flaws. With Linux, on the other hand, developers can take matters into their own hands, and tweak faulty code as the need arises.

Second, although "Linux source code can be easily probed and examined by hackers it is also open to the scrutiny of the rest of the world and is therefore more robust and reliable as a result".

Microsoft is not thrilled with these findings, Yahoo reports.

 
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Re: OS Vulnerabilities (Score: 0)
by Anonymous on Saturday, November 09 @ 22:37:11 EST
So Linux accounts for only 19% of security vulnerabilities. Hmm, if that's not a reason for someone to use Linux on a server, I'm not sure what is.

I'm not at all surprised by these results though. My Windows installation used to get sucessful hacks about once a month, while Linux never got any. My solution was to put up a hardware firewall, and stricktly limit the flow of data through it, but I shouldn't have had to do that.

And why is Ms so angry with the results? Hell, a few months ago the ADMITTED that thier products are insecure, but claimed to be trying to fix that problem.


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