[TriLUG] Linux is more secure.

[Mike Mueller]

On Monday 22 September 2003 22:05, Jon Carnes wrote:
> Linux is much more secure than Windows (not as secure as OpenBSD).
>
> http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,4149,1275872,00.asp
>
> I agree completely with this article.  Linux is inherently more secure
> than Windows.  Being OpenSource *helps* with security.
>
> To folks who argue that Windows just "seems" less secure, because there
> are so many installs out there, I say look at Apache verses IIS.  Apache
> is far more prevalent than IIS, but which sites are hacked the most, and
> have the most damage done to them?
>
> (Answer: IIS - in case you were wondering :-)

I like the *helps* phrase.  It's a completely true and unassailable and 
positive statement.  

/. discusses bad OSS security apps here:
http://slashdot.org/articles/03/09/22/2127236.shtml?tid=106&tid=126&tid=172&tid=185

This discussion supports the position that OSS helps with security.  If the 
apps in question were not OSS, then the critic would not have been able to 
make the judgements on the apps that he published on the crypto mail list.
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Mike Mueller
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