[mikenola]

And they'd love for everyone to use tools for which they have the source code. It just makes it that much easier to find and exploit holes in your systems.

I guess that's the part of the argument I have a hard time buying. If it were true, why don't we hear about more about it? Reading the DoD-CERT monthly incident reports , 90% are microsoft systems.

But then again, I'm sure there are plenty of incidents that never see the light of day.

[Bush2000]

I guess that's the part of the argument I have a hard time buying. If it were true, why don't we hear about more about it? Reading the DoD-CERT monthly incident reports , 90% are microsoft systems. But then again, I'm sure there are plenty of incidents that never see the light of day.

Ah, but you do hear about it -- if you know where to look. http://online.securityfocus.com/archive/1. There are plenty of flaws in *nix and OSes other than Windows. It's just that Windows is the most widely used desktop OS; therefore, it is the one that makes headline news.

[Bush2000]

Incidentally, a favorite game for *nix advocates is to criticize MS for flaws in IIS and other OS middleware as "flaws in Windows" -- and then turn around and say that stuff like WS-FTPD and other components provided with Linux aren't "flaws in Linux". It's a stupid game, frankly, and those who follow security issues understand that all OSes are (and will continue to be) plagued by security problems.