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  1. Comment - Microsoft: Vista Most Secure OS Ever

    (Jun 16, 2006 - 6:47 PM)

    I believe it was in the OpenSSH in OpenBSD version 3.3.

    http://www.securiteam.com/exploits/5MP030A7PA.html

  2. Comment - Microsoft: Vista Most Secure OS Ever

    (Jun 16, 2006 - 6:41 PM)

    Haha, let's define the attack vector(s) before we say anything is secure.

    My friends in the military was telling me a story of a high-level attack and penetration excercise where they kidnapped an officer while he was vacationing in Puerto Rico. The officer didn't know it was an excercise and gave up his smartcard and passphrase. They briefed him on the excercise and released him; they held him for a total of 2 hours or so.

    There was also the case where the FBI planted an hardware keystroke logger on a mafia member: http://www.theregister.c...mafia_trial_to_test_fbi/

  3. Comment - Microsoft: Vista Most Secure OS Ever

    (Jun 16, 2006 - 6:19 PM)

    All this shows is that the Mac has flaws (no surprise there). In order to have any significance, there should be a comparison between the number of Mac viruses and Windows viruses (using a common criteria, time frame, definition, etc.); if what you're implying is true, that the number of viruses is directly proportional to the user install base, then for every Mac virus, there should be about 24.7 Windows viruses (according to your statistics Windows has 88.9% marketshare, Mac has 3.6% marketshare, 88.9/3.6=24.7).

    I personally don't want to do the work of trolling through Security Focus or Nessus to run the numbers but just from the list below, you list about 7-8 Mac vulnerabilities. That should mean there would be around 198 vulnerabilities for Windows. I suspect that there are far more Windows vulnerabilities than that.

    Even if you didn't count half of the viruses and there were actually 20 Mac viruses/vulnerabilities, that means there should be 494 Windows viruses/vulnerabilities. Again, I think Windows has more than 494 vulnerabilities.

  4. Comment - Microsoft: Vista Most Secure OS Ever

    (Jun 16, 2006 - 5:53 PM)

    OpenBSD fixed that exploit over two years ago. If you have that exploit on your system, you're using an outdated and non-supported version of OpenBSD.

  5. Comment - Microsoft: Vista Most Secure OS Ever

    (Jun 16, 2006 - 5:37 PM)

    Most people who manually alter Linux config files and enter commands through the command-line generally know what they're doing and can fix problems that they cause. If they don't and they still want to tinker, that's like them messing with their car although they don't have any mechnical knowledge . . . they'll face the consequences.

    Also, if an installation goes wrong (with either Windows or Linux), at that point most people just reinstall. I've had Windows installation run smoothly and after a couple of days, something breaks due to an mis-installation and I need to reinstall to fix it.

    The MAJORITY of people who want to try/use Linux will either buy SuSE/Red Hat/Mepis/etc. or download Fedora/Ubuntu/OpenSuSE/etc. These distributions that focus on the desktop market provide by default, one program for each type of application (Evolution for mail/calendaring, Totem for multimedia, OpenOffice for office productivity, etc.)