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Re: Linux big bang theory....


From: Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu
Date: Thu, 10 May 2007 23:12:47 -0400

On Thu, 10 May 2007 15:12:01 EDT, "J. Oquendo" said:

be security conscious" then you are the fool here. Of the
couple of thousand of brute force bots I see, none are on
Windows.

Meanwhile, Vint Cerf was estimating 140 *million* compromised hosts,
and they're sure as hell not all Linux boxes.

Those several thousand ssh-pounders are insignificant compared to the overall
problem. In fact, if you estimate that Linux has even a 1% market share, if
Linux was equally heavily exploited, you'd expect to see 1.4 million pwned
Linux boxes, rather than just a "couple of thousand".  

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