Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
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> Is Linux the most secure OS?
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>| Furthermore, determining a ?most secure? OS is not as straightforward as it
>| might at first sound. One of the most common criteria used by people who
>| don?t really understand security, and by those who do understand it but want
>| to manipulate those who don?t with misdirection and massaged statistics, is
>| vulnerability discovery rates. Those of us who know better are aware that
>| there?s a lot more to security than counting vulnerabilities.
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> http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/security/?p=471
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I've no problems with vulnerabilities being found, so long as they are
fixed, openly and well. Windows has about 10 years of catching up to do
here - it seems unlikely that it could be done.
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