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Re: Symantec on Microsoft's Need for Lack of Security

  • Subject: Re: Symantec on Microsoft's Need for Lack of Security
  • From: William Poaster <wp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2007 23:44:22 +0000
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On Wed, 07 Feb 2007 23:26:08 +0000, Roy Schestowitz wrote:

> __/ [ nessuno@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ] on Wednesday 07 February 2007 22:22
> \__
> 
> 
>>> Microsoft Windows: Insecure by Design
>>>
>>>
>> Roy, how bout this one:
>> 
>> 
> http://weblog.infoworld.com/enterprisemac/archives/2006/08/is_windows_inhe.html
>> 
>> Compares Mac and Windows security
>  
> Haven't looked at it yet, but there's plenty of evidence to suggest that
> Windows is simply insecure by design. The evidence is very scientific,
> too.

Windows: Insecure by design -
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A34978-2003Aug23?language=printer


> One could go about with the R&D pitch, but changing hundreds of millions
> of LOCs to secure an O/S is impossible. Teams require collaboration, so
> money is no substitute for /time/. That's why Apple decided to choose a
> mature BSD. If Microsoft does not do the same (they have Novell, despite
> the FSF), then its only hope is Singularity of 'Winux'.

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