At 5:27 PM -0600 2004/02/23, ATWong wrote:
On Mon, 23 Feb 2004, Gilles Detillieux wrote:
According to Wayne Billing:
..from Tony Wong in Architecture:
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It just goes to show how security is only as strong as the weakest link.
http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/2004/02/20/osxserver/index.php?redirect=...
In this case, judging from what I've read, the weakest link would seem to be the quality mi2g's research. They don't seem to give the number of successful attacks as a percentage of installed systems, so it's pretty hard to draw any real conclusions about why the Linux numbers are now higher than for Windows.
I think you're reading a little too much into that report. I was just trying to say that a) BSD/OpenBSD/OSX is considered by many to be fairly secure, b) The quality of the system administrator has a great deal to do with the security of a system.
Thanks to you both for pointing out the inherent weaknesses in: - believing everything one reads - some information found on the internet
::-)
Wayne