Re: Secure and Reliable?

From: Alun Jones (alun@texis.com)
Date: 08/15/02 

From: alun@texis.com (Alun Jones)
Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2002 01:17:45 GMT

In article <9537084f.0208141425.5e05f32c@posting.google.com>,
info@translation3000.com (Advanced International Translations) wrote:
>Is it just "a common sense" or do other platforms like Linux are so
>bullet-proof, like for instance, all their browsers have something
>like these "tunnels" I am talking about? I am not pro-Microsoft or
>anti-Microsoft but it seems that non-Microsoft products regarded as
>some kind of "panacea" from all problems.

Partly it's because these programs have been looked at with security in mind
more than Microsoft code, but there's a fair amount to which popularity
contributes. Let's say you're Fred Q Hacker, and you want to brag to your
friends about the latest really cool thing you've done. What are you going to
target, an operating system that is on 90% of all computers, and mostly
administered by people who can't spell computer, or an operating system that's
installed on substantially fewer machines, and whose administrators may very
well have custom modifications into the kernel code?

Microsoft products are more secure now than they have ever been, to the point
now that a well-trained and attentive administrator with a keen eye to
securing his system should not have any more trouble securing his system than
a similarly well-qualified administrator on most other platforms.

Alun.
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