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

[Fred A. Miller]

On Wed December 8 2004 9:37 am, Josiah Ritchie wrote:
> 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/cg
> >i/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.

They DON'T, and it's come under a LOT of "fire" from all quarters.

Fred

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