Yeah, good points. So if their are holes! You are at fault, not the database. You might as well go with SQL server for CYA! : - )
Allan ----- Original message ----- From: "Roger Binns" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 1/31/2005 11:42:46 AM Subject: Re: RE(1): [sqlite] SQLite Advocacy > > Not true at all. In fact, from experience, the Linux OS is > > much more full of holes than Windows. It appears most hate > > Microsoft so thier OS gets the most virus and hackers. All > > I can say is we independently did a test with Linux and Windows > > we isntalled a default OS and put it on the net without a > > firewall. Windows was never hacked, but Linux was hacked in > > a day and they took root access to the point where we could > > not get back in. > > That is one of the most insignificant tests. Typically the > "holes" are going to depend on what applications and services > you have installed on the operating system. For Linux, the > default installs have almost no exposed services. The same is > mostly true of using XP SP2. And there are many many > counter examples to your data point anyway. The logic is the > same as saying that some airline hasn't had a crash yet > this year therefore it must be safer than the other ones. > > But it does raise a good point for SQLite. SQLite is not > exposed as a service in *any* way. It is just a library. > You cannot hack into it over the network. You can hack into > an application using SQLite, but you can do the same for > an application using SQL Server, or anything else. SQLite > buys you one less point of exposure. (The same is true of > any other embedded database.) > > What SQLite and other open source/free projects give you is > freedom of choice. You can get support from whomever you want. > You can get maintenance from whomever you want. There is > no lockin. So if you want to pay lots of money for 30 minute > response times, you can. If you want to pay almost no money > for one month response times, you can. If you don't like how > long whomever you choose to pay, you can drop them and pick > someone else. With Microsoft, you get only what they offer > with no choice. You get to go where they want to go today. > And try to get a customisation out of Microsoft ... > > How about proper research on how long it takes to get systems > hacked: > > http://www.honeynet.org/papers/trends/life-linux.pdf > http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2005/01/linux_security_1.html > > And some counter-FUD: > > http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/10/22/linux_v_windows_security/ > http://www.wired.com/news/linux/0,1411,66022,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_1 > http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/19649.html > http://www.securitypipeline.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=26805728 > http://www.fcw.com/fcw/articles/2004/0503/feat-linux3-05-03-04.asp > > Roger >
