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Re: Microsoft announce most secure OS on the planet
From: Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu
Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2009 11:40:09 -0400
On Sun, 19 Apr 2009 16:00:08 EDT, Rich Kulawiec said:
On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 12:32:37AM +0000, security curmudgeon wrote:"Popular" products have more published vulnerabilities, that would be pretty easy to argue. May have to qualify "popular" to who though (the researchers/blackhats, or the general public which makes them appealing targets to the bad guys, etc).Along those lines: one of the canards that I frequently find myself defusing is "X is attacked often because it's popular". It may be true that X is attacked often, and that X is popular, but that doesn't prove a causal relationship between the two. I think it much more likely that X is attacked (a) because it's weak or (b) because it's perceived to be weak.
Actually, the attacks will be targeted at the product that has the highest product of (weakness)*(profit per break). RSTS/E won't be attacked much, even though it's pretty weak, because there's no money to be made at it. Financial services will be targets, even though they're *hopefully* tough targets, because the profit side is big. And then in the middle, somebody is getting rich hitting consumer systems in the millions at $5-$10 average a pop...
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