Re: Which OS is more secure ?

[David.X.Kahn@xxxxxxx]

John wrote:

> The argument of which OS is more secure presupposes that
> security is something you can buy from the factory, and
> then just happily live under.

In Richard Feynman's autobiography there is a wonderful account of an
enormous safe in the office of a top manager on the Manhattan Project at
Los Alamos. Everyone on the project who had paper to file had a personal
cabinet with a combination lock. But this manager decided that his papers
were more important than other people's and so he made a big show of having
this huge safe installed. Unfortunately he left the project without passing
on the combination. This didn't matter, however, as it turned out that he
had never changed the combination from the factory default so the locksmith
was able to open it within seconds.

Dave...
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