With Vista breached, Linux unbeaten in hacking contest
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| The MacBook Air went first; a tiny Fujitsu laptop running Vista was hacked on
| the last day of the contest; but it was Linux, running on a Sony Vaio, that
| remained undefeated as conference organizers ended a three-way computer
| hacking challenge Friday at the CanSecWest conference.
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http://www.linuxworld.com/news/2008/032908-with-vista-breached-linux-unbeaten.html?fsrc=rss-linux-news
Great news and good publicity.
Days ago:
Security: Lintel vs Wintel
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| Instead, he suggests that the more general route to a conclusion starts by
| looking at the operating systems under consideration - and that this will
| always favor Lintel over Wintel because Linux is Unix and shares its
| traditional separation between privileged and unprivileged operations, while
| Windows is a brand name used to sell a wide range of products all of which
| are characterized by a separation defeating need to maintain backwards
| compatibility.
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| And that’s his bottom line: on average people applying Mr. Petreley’s metric
| to their own decisions will find that Lintel rates lower on the exposure part
| of the risk scale - making it generally the better bet.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/Murphy/?p=1100
Related:
Why Linux is More Secure Than Windows
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| Much better patch management tools...
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| Much stronger default configuration...
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| Modular Design...
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| Better tools to protect against zero-day attacks...
|
| Open Source Architecture...
|
| Diverse Environment...
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http://freewebsoftwarereviews.blogspot.com/2007/12/why-linux-is-more-secure-than-windows.html
Linux Security: A Big Edge Over Windows
http://www.linuxinsider.com/rsstory/54742.html
The problems with Vista laid bare - What might have been
http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=38419
Why Windows is less secure than Linux
http://blogs.zdnet.com/threatchaos/?p=311
Microsoft Windows: Insecure by Design
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A34978-2003Aug23?language=printer
If Only We Knew Then What We Know Now About Windows XP
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/23/AR2006092300510.html?nav=rss_technology
Why Windows is a security nightmare.
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/05/21/1085120110704.html
The Structural Failures of Windows
http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=15305
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