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Subject:Re: Viva le Same! Linux From:Andrew Plato <gilliankitty -at- yahoo -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Tue, 1 Oct 2002 16:52:21 -0700 (PDT)
--- Bruce Byfield <bbyfield -at- axionet -dot- com> wrote:
> In general,when people say that Linux is more secure than Windows, they
> are talking about the potential. But the practice may fall far below the
> potential.
All systems have the exact same security potential. All can be hacked, all can be
secured. It just depends on what you do to them.
If a Windows box is put on a network and is never hacked, does that mean it is
insecure? If it is vulnerable to 3 threats out of 250 and a Linux box is
vulnerable to 2 out of 250, is the Linux box "more secure?" What if the 3 windows
ones are extremely hard to do, but the Linux ones are easy? What if a Windows box
is firewalled and IDSs but the Linux box isn't? Or vice versa?
Again - you are searching for absolutes in a world with no absolutes. Why do you
think I love security so much. Its the eternally fluid project. Quantum IT - you
can never measure security without fundamentally affecting that security.
Andrew Plato
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