Re: controversial paper

From: Mxsmanic (mxsmanic_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 09/27/03 

Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2003 11:24:33 +0200

Ernst Lippe writes:

> 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.

I don't see any reason to believe that a single OS is any more or less
vulnerable than a multitude of operating systems. Security depends on
the operating system itself and how it is maintained and used. 

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