[CS-FSLUG] Deep study: The world's safest computing environment

Josiah Ritchie jritchie at bible.edu
Wed Dec 8 08:37:52 CST 2004


On Wed, 2004-12-08 at 09:30 -0500, Frank Bax wrote:
> http://www.mi2g.com/cgi/mi2g/frameset.php?pageid=http%3A//www.mi2g.com/cgi/mi2g/press/021104.php
> 
> London, UK - 2 November 2004, 02:30 GMT - The most comprehensive study ever 
> undertaken by the mi2g Intelligence Unit over 12 months reveals that the 
> world's safest and most secure 24/7 online computing environment - 
> operating system plus applications - is proving to be the Open Source 
> platform of BSD (Berkley Software Distribution) and the Mac OS X based on 
> Darwin.
> 
> The study also reveals that Linux has become the most breached 24/7 online 
> computing environment in terms of manual hacker attacks overall and 
> accounts for 65.64% of all breaches recorded, with 154,846 successfully 
> compromised Linux 24/7 online computers of all flavours.

Okay, you got me. I gotta go see this. I'm baffled that they would even
have accurate enough information to make these sort of claims.

JSR/





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