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Originally posted by aleph_null1:
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Originally posted by LennonCook:
Linux is the best OS
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Ahem ... FreeBSD, anyone?
And, just for equal time here, yesterday a class at U-IL Chicago released 44 vulnerabilities in common UNIX apps, which they discovered as a project for their class.
http://tigger.uic.edu/~jlongs2/holes/
Nobody's perfect 
[/QUOTE]I've said it before but IMO if other OS's and Apps were the subject of as concerted and intense an attack as M$ faces from it's many opponents... they'd fare no better. Open Source, by virtue of its inherent openness (it's greatest strength imo)... would be PARTICULARLY susceptable.
The risk I see here for M$ opponenets is if M$ can actually put together a secure system... its competitors won't have an adequate response. It's like drug immunity... the more and harder a bug is attacked by a drug, the quicker it builds up immunity and if it survives it emerges stronger than the competition. It's survival of the fittest, and the community is currently assisting M$ in debugging their goliath, seems like fun but possibly not so smart in the long run. I think more people should be working to uncover the weaknesses of the apps they're loyal to (Linux, Firefox, whatever) in order to prevent M$ from getting an insurmountable lead. I'm sure you've all seen the previews of longhorn (and NGSCB)... it's a significant change in security model, and if effective (and it looks like it may be) it will be something that will need to be addressed by the competition.