Oh, I certainly didn't mean to imply anything about current vulnerabilities; quite the opposite, in fact. I was backing up the statement that hackers have been banging on Unix machines for a very long time.
This is because of two basic problems. A) Windows runs it services as the system user (so and owned service like IE can own the whole box) and B) Microsoft has marketed Windows by saying that a Windows desktop doesn't need an admin, yet there are a multitude of admin tasks that need to be completed regularly on a Windows desktop to ensure that it's not owned.
More fundamentally, DOS/Windows was not built from the ground up as a multiuser, networked OS; Unix was.
Oh, I see. Sorry to misunderstand you.
More fundamentally, DOS/Windows was not built from the ground up as a multiuser, networked OS; Unix was.
They had the opportunity to fix that at least three times that they've bragged about. Windows 9x->WindowsNT, WindowsXP and now Vista. Each time they've said it was going to be a complete rewrite. Each time they end up with the same old mistakes.