On Sun, 2008-08-24 at 12:54 -0500, Lanny Marcus wrote: > On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 6:27 PM, Damian S <dsteward at internode.on.net> wrote: > > Hi, that MS article is just marketing fluff. > > Here is a less biased viewpoint: > > http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080425-study-70-percent-say-red-hat-more-secure-than-windows.html > > > > Its further interesting to note that at a CanSecWest conference earlier > > this year, researchers were given access to 3 machines to attempt to > > hack. > > The OSX laptop was compromised on day 2, the Vista laptop on day 3, and > > the machine running Ubuntu linux wasn't hacked into at all. > > Mac OS X is based on UNIX (BSD) and the OSX laptop was the first to be > compromised. This illustrates that any OS can be compromised, > depending upon how securely it is configured. It took another day to > break into the Vista laptop. The Ubuntu Linux box probably was a much > later OS and configured better? ---- I vaguely recall that the compromise on the OSX laptop was a breach in Safari (big surprise there - not) Windows security has improved some...this is a useless thread Craig