-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1

Rachel Garrett wrote:
> I think that's interesting, because it's a good counterexample for the
> people (like Digital Dave in the ComputorEdge) who say that the
> primary reason Linux seems more "secure," is that hackers [sic] don't
> go after "minority" operating systems like Linux. Don't tell me Xenix
> was the most popular flavor of *nix!

There are a couple of good ways to defeat this argument:

1. Point out that Apache has the majority of the web server market share
while IIS has the majority of the exploits.

2. Point out the recent worm that went around attacking MySQL on Windows
servers. If that's not a configuration with small marketshare I don't
know what is.

People DO go after minority operating systems, applications, and
configurations.

- --
Tracy R Reed
http://[EMAIL PROTECTED]
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (GNU/Linux)
Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org

iD8DBQFCZ1ZU9PIYKZYVAq0RAqSfAKCa4UHrMaIQhjE1ycmmFPhZiFnxAwCeMrEH
SMPt3U0M+Y7Y3tcaTdxLYbI=
=fn7b
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
-- 
[email protected]
http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list

Reply via email to