Re: subjective Q. - what's the most secure OS?

From: The One and Only duck (root@home.right.now)
Date: 06/27/02 

From: root@home.right.now (The One and Only duck)
Date: 27 Jun 2002 18:27:42 GMT

In article <DAyS8.8876$Uu2.1789@sccrnsc03>,
        "sakky" <sakhalinrf@hotmail.com> writes:
>
> OK, look, I don't want to turn this into 'a thing'. But it seems like you
> know exactly what kind of question I'm asking and you're deliberately trying
> not to answer it. I say that not because I'm trying to be confrontational,
> but because I think it is evidently true that there are some OS's that by
> and large are more secure than others - from a statistical point of view.
> Yes, any OS can be made truly safe or truly unsafe. But there will also
> should be a statistical bell-curve. Those other factors are all
> interesting, but don't need to be included in this discussion.

Nope - and your question is like asking:
"which car is the best?"

In an urban area electric cars seems a good choice.
For Paris-Dakar you should consider a gasoline driven vehicle.
In operation Desert storm a tank might come in handy.
On Mars you need a highly specialised car.

That's 'the ting' (taking a turn)

> To stretch the analogy, you raise the issue of vehicle safety.
> Organizations like Consumer Reports or the Department of Transportation
> don't issue a report on vehicle safety, only to say that the safest vehicle
> is in fact one that you never use. Well of course it's true that the safest
> car is the one you never drive, but that's not the issue that is of
> interest. It is understood that for the gamut of the way that vehicles are
> used, certain vehicles are simply safer than others - things like Volvos and
> SUV's, as opposed to small sportscars. Now, can you make a sportscar safe?
> Of course. Can you make a Volvo dangerous. Of course. But by and large it
> still holds true that certain vehicles are safer than others. When the DoT
> issues a report on vehicle safety, you expect a certain ranking. Not just a
> single page that tells everybody not to drive.
>
how about a Volvo sportscar then ??

   the (asking the unaskable) duck
 

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