Re: Security through wide system use?
From: Lew Pitcher (lpitcher_at_sympatico.ca)
Date: 12/24/03
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Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2003 17:29:31 -0500
Andrew McCall wrote:
> Hi Folks,
>
> This isn't intended to be a troll, and I am not trying to start a
> flame... but...
>
> I received an email today from my manager pointing me to an article on
> news.com.com[1] that states Windows gets hacked more because its
> popular, and Linux isn't as popular so it doesn't get targeted as
> much.
Statistics show that IIS gets hacked more than Apache, /but/ Apache is more
popular than IIS. I suspect that the over-simple explanation that "more popular
means more hacked" is not the correct explanation for MSWindows vs Linux.
As my statistics teacher once told me, "Figures don't lie, but liars sure can
figure."
-- Lew Pitcher Master Codewright and JOAT-in-training Registered Linux User #112576 (http://counter.li.org/) Slackware - Because I know what I'm doing.
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