Re: EBAY and AMAZON

[JC Dill <jcdill.lists () gmail com>]

On 13/06/12 5:17 AM, Astro Dog wrote:
> (Sorry for the top post. Mail client is being obnoxious.)
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>   Why? The prevalence of malware for a given OS is going to, generally, be a matter of most return for least work.
>   If you're writing malware to steal credit card numbers, say, you're much better served writing it for Windows than 
> you are OSX or Linux,

Really?  I'm positive that there are far more credit card numbers stored 
on various flavors of *nix systems (web servers) than windows systems.  
And you only have to crack one to get a plethora of credit card numbers.

If both flavors were equally easy to exploit, according to your theory 
above we would see more exploits on the *nix servers.  Yet server-side 
exploits are seen on Windows servers far more often than *nix servers, 
despite the fact that more web pages are served by *nix servers than 
Windows servers.

I'm really surprised to see this "Windows is more popular, that's why 
it's exploited more often" misinformation being spewed on a technical 
list like NANOG.  I thought people here had more clue.

jc