The single biggest problem on the 'Net (was:...EULAs)
Tuesday, October 27, 2009 at 7:28 pm
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Posted by gewg_
(4444 messages posted)
gewg_ wrote:
||(Linux guys DON'T have to worry about infections).
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sekirt wrote:
|You wouldn't be able to say that if Linux had,
|say, 50% or more of the market.
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gewg_ wrote:
:Well, now you went and poked the bear.
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:Only fools rely on Security Through Obscurity.
:That has never been a valid security model and Unix has always known that.
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:The markets where Open Source Software already dominates are:
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:1) The Apache Web server
:The competition is M$'s Internet Information Server.
:Despite IIS being in the minority WRT installations,
:IIS has orders of magnitude more security breaches than Apache.
Another guy has put a fine point on this.
He lists even more M$ apps (besides IIS)
and enumerates how the vast majority of the problems on the Internet
are due to brain-dead M$ technologies at the server end:
from the Usenet Archive: Rex Ballard -- The Big Problem is...
If all the M$ junk was scraped off all the servers,
there would be a lot fewer mechanisms for the malware to enter the stream.
Note also the title of that thread;
for being a relatively small percentage of the systems on the server end of the 'Net,
M$ junk causes a disproportionate amount of the grief.
...and, of course, if there weren't any M$ client boxes to get infected,
the infection level on the Internet would drop to within eleven 9s of zero.
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