Re: controversial paper

From: Tom St Denis (tomstdenis_at_iahu.ca)
Date: 09/27/03 

Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2003 23:46:15 GMT

"Ernst Lippe" <ernstl-at-planet-dot-nl@ignore.this> wrote in message
news:3f74cc46$0$8843$48b97d01@reader20.wxs.nl...
> On Fri, 26 Sep 2003 22:41:36 +0000, Tom St Denis wrote:
>
> >
> > "Ben Mord" <benmord@earthlink.net> wrote in message
> > news:bl2evg$7gkfi$1@ID-101018.news.uni-berlin.de...
> >> Interesting.
> >>
> >> This seems to be a controversial paper:
> >> http://www.ccianet.org/papers/cyberinsecurity.pdf
> >>
> >> Published here:
> >> http://www.ccianet.org/index.php3
>
> > The net sum of the paper is "windows bad because it has flaws".
>
> No. The main thesis of the paper is that a monoculture is bad for
> security, because the majority of the systems will share the same
> vulnerabilities.

Then they're still wrong. I run windows and I have yet to be infected with
any of these "virii of the week" even after having several 100 MB of them
sent to me via email.

Tom

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