[PLUG] Windows versus Linux security

[Carla Schroder]

On Sunday 21 July 2002 11:54 pm, Rich Shepard wrote:
> On 21 Jul 2002, Shahms E. King wrote:
> > "This may skew numbers" is an understatement, making any and all
> > discussion of vulnerabilities based solely on number wholly inaccurate
> > and patently absurd.  Unless you do the counting fairly for every
> > platform, you cannot get any meaningful data out of them.  Additionally,
> > you can point out that using these numbers and rationale that Mac OS X
> > Server (or Mac OS in general) is the most secure "popular" operating
> > system and see how they react.
>
>   Would a fair metric be the number of virii and worms attacking systems?
> How many e-mail virii are there known to be for each OS? What about worms?
> How about calculating response and patch time delays?
>
> Rich
>

I think the fairest metric is the actual damage done. Measured in dollars, 
time, and aggravation, Microsoft is the undisputed world champeen.

Good response, Ed.

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