Re: vulnerability and popularity (was: EBAY and AMAZON)

2012-06-13 Thread Astro Dog
- Original Message - From: Andrew Sullivan Sent: 06/13/12 07:33 AM To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: vulnerability and popularity (was: EBAY and AMAZON) On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 07:55:37AM -0400, Rich Kulawiec wrote: > If popularity were the measure of relative OS security, then we would > exp

Re: EBAY and AMAZON

2012-06-13 Thread Astro Dog
(Sorry for the top post. Mail client is being obnoxious.) Why? The prevalence of malware for a given OS is going to, generally, be a matter of most return for least work. If you're writing malware to steal credit card numbers, say, you're much better served writing it for Windows than you are