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Re: Worms, Air Gaps and Responsibility


From: Erick Mechler <emechler () techometer net>
Date: Mon, 10 May 2004 11:12:43 -0700

:: > AND: where do you get the info about LINUX being more secure than the
:: > Big Bad ? Read any serious info , like from bagtrack, LINUX had more
:: > vulnerabilities for the past 3 years than any given MS OS

:: None of which really impacted the world. Or took down critical
:: infrastructure, that being what sparked off this thread.

I bet you'd see the same sort of behavior from worms no matter what OS the
World's critical infrastructures were to run.  If they ran *NIX, you'd see
more worms targeting those OSs.  There's something to be said for
heterogenous computing environments.

Cheers - Erick
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