Posted on 06/22/2007 7:53:18 PM PDT by Rodney King
Attention Linux, Vista, and Apple fan boys: put on your gloves... it's time to rumble! A 6-month vulnerability report issued by Jeff "Security Guy" Jones has caught the eye of Redmond and the ire of places beyond. The report which bases its security assessment upon vulnerabilities found (not actually exploited) claims that Vista is "more secure than OS X and Linux." In fact, the much maligned XP even crushes the competition using their calculations. Of course, it's worth noting that Jeff is a member of Microsoft's Security business unit which will probably sway your opinion as to the integrity of the data. Still, as incomplete as the assessment may be, it certainly appears to be a good showing for Vista considering the vast community of hackers attempting to thwart its security. We can predict what Billy G's probably saying right about now: Dy-no-mite JJ!
WAR IS PEACE
FREEDOM IS SLAVERY
TRUTH IS PROPAGANDA ....
More Micro$oft Propaganda ... move along nothing to see here.
That's no fun.
I’m deadly serious, it’s not like I have every suggested that Mac’s are for homosexuals or anything.
Anybody have any sales stats for Vista?
It would take a lot to convince me that anything Windows generates is more secure than Linux. Possible, not probable.
Need more data!
It's kind of like being on FR in 2003, when W was giving away the farm to Ted Kennedy. We all thought, surely, W is smart and he is capable of pulling off something big. Turned out he was just an idiot who have into Kennedy think that he could win him over.
Same with Mircrosoft. We like to think that with their resources they could do something really good, but chances are that underneath is just the usual crap.
I'm your Huckleberry.
It’s security by obscurity Rodney.
But it is soooooo much fun
The Windows XP statistics are simply unbelievable
Vista hasn’t been out very long, give it time
I have NEVER had a virus, Trojan horse, 'bot, or any other parasitic monster in any of my Macs since '84. Can't say that about the Windows boxes I work on, even behind professionally maintained firewalls
And I just had $8 million wire transfered to my bank from an anonymous source.
Never heard of Jeff Jones before. Wait until Bruce Schneier weighs in.
“There are lies, damned lies and statistics.”
Mark Twain
Never heard of Bruce Shneir before. Wait until Derek Smalls weighs in.
I don’t know, not fixing more than 50% of your known bugs in the 1st 6 months is anything but “more secure” than others. Sure XP had more bugs, they were actually, uhhhhhhhhhh you know, fixed.
http://security.itworld.com/4347/070622vistapatching/page_1.html
Sorry I don't get that comment. I just don't. Mac OS X is BSD Unix. Unix, Linux, Solaris are the most dependable and robust OSes out there. I guess I don't see how sexual orientation = BSD Unix.
I can see how lack of intellect = Windows. (Bloated, over priced crap that is light years behind the others).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Jones
Yah, right.
Wow, 17 posts and I'm still IB4GE...!
IB4GE?
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