RE: Which OS is more secure ?

["Booth Martin" <booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

additionally, these are the problems found, not the total number of problems
  With more people targeting the Windows platform, maybe the vulnerbilities
are being found quicker, but there's no notion as to the grand total of
problems.

About Linux... of course there's more vulnerbilities. Their development is
done in the open air, not controlled labs as is the case with commercial
development.


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From: midrange-l@midrange.com
Date: Monday, February 04, 2002 01:23:55 PM
To: 'midrange-l@midrange.com'
Subject: RE: Which OS is more secure ?

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> what's your point Phil? The number of vulnerabilities reported

> is also a function of the number of people looking for such

> (OS/400 is a good example :-), so shouldn't you normalize

> the count by the number of people looking or at least by

> installed base?


I think using either of those cases; # of people looking; or # of installed
copies still puts Windows as *more* secure than Linux despite the often
'perceived' thinking that it's the other way around.

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