*BSD is considered the safest OS

2004-11-02 Thread Richard Cotrina
Perhaps this is an old news, but it's interesting to post it to the list. A recent study made by MI2G, an UK company focused in data risk security, shows that *BSD and MacOS X were the less breached OS in a sample of more that 200K computers permanently connected to the internet. http://mi2g.net/

Re: *BSD is considered the safest OS

2004-11-02 Thread Benjamin Walkenhorst
Richard Cotrina wrote: Perhaps this is an old news, but it's interesting to post it to the list. A recent study made by MI2G, an UK company focused in data risk security, shows that *BSD and MacOS X were the less breached OS in a sample of more that 200K computers permanently connected to the inter

Re: *BSD is considered the safest OS

2004-11-02 Thread Jorn Argelo
On Tue, 2 Nov 2004 12:12:54 -0500 (PET), Richard Cotrina wrote > Perhaps this is an old news, but it's interesting to post it to the list. > > A recent study made by MI2G, an UK company focused in data risk > security, shows that *BSD and MacOS X were the less breached OS in a > sample of more tha

Re: *BSD is considered the safest OS

2004-11-02 Thread Nikolas Britton
Richard Cotrina wrote: Perhaps this is an old news, but it's interesting to post it to the list. A recent study made by MI2G, an UK company focused in data risk security, shows that *BSD and MacOS X were the less breached OS in a sample of more that 200K computers permanently connected to the inter

Re: *BSD is considered the safest OS

2004-11-02 Thread K. Greenwood
--- Nikolas Britton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Richard Cotrina wrote: > > >Perhaps this is an old news, but it's interesting > to post it to the list. > > > >A recent study made by MI2G, an UK company focused > in data risk > >security, shows that *BSD and MacOS X were the less > breached OS i

Re: *BSD is considered the safest OS

2004-11-02 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Nikolas Britton wrote: Richard Cotrina wrote: Perhaps this is an old news, but it's interesting to post it to the list. A recent study made by MI2G, an UK company focused in data risk security, shows that *BSD and MacOS X were the less breached OS in a sample of more that 200K computers permanent

Re: *BSD is considered the safest OS

2004-11-03 Thread Henrik W Lund
Jorn Argelo wrote: On Tue, 2 Nov 2004 12:12:54 -0500 (PET), Richard Cotrina wrote Perhaps this is an old news, but it's interesting to post it to the list. A recent study made by MI2G, an UK company focused in data risk security, shows that *BSD and MacOS X were the less breached OS in a sample of

Re: *BSD is considered the safest OS

2004-11-03 Thread terry tyson
On Wed, 03 Nov 2004 19:45:38 +0100, Henrik W Lund <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Actually, I read somewhere that UNIX systems are more vulnerable to > buffer overflows than Windows systems. Can't confirm the validity of > this, though. > Buffer overflows are already being addressed. http://www.o

Re: *BSD is considered the safest OS

2004-11-03 Thread W. D.
At 13:50 11/3/2004, terry tyson wrote: >On Wed, 03 Nov 2004 19:45:38 +0100, Henrik W Lund ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Actually, I read somewhere that UNIX systems are more vulnerable to >> buffer overflows than Windows systems. Can't confirm the validity of >> this, though. >> > >Buffer ove