[bornred]

The key to security isn’t the false notion of invincibility, it’s in maintaining a secure environment and reducing risk.

Risk reduction begins with good design. A good design will have fewer bugs to begin with. A poor design will provide a steady stream of new holes for years and years to come.

[BuckeyeTexan]

Preach it. That’s the gospel.

[rightwingextremist1776]

That is true...security has to be part of the design from the start....however it is only ONE issue in the “big picture” of securing computer systems. Microsoft has put a great deal of effort into the security of it's designs in the last few generations of the OS. To believe that one commercially available OS is supremely secure over another one is just foolish. Security is as much in the way it is USED as it is in the internal design.....not to mention that once applications are installed the design of the OS is compromised depending on the security of the application. There are MANY layers of security when it comes to the "big picture".

[OneWingedShark]

>The key to security isn’t the false notion of invincibility, it’s in maintaining a secure environment and reducing risk.
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>>Risk reduction begins with good design. A good design will have fewer bugs to begin with.
>>A poor design will provide a steady stream of new holes for years and years to come.

Ok, while I don’t disagree with your statements, it begs the question “is Linux a good design?” I think not; just because some can argue that it’s less bad than MS Windows does not make it good.