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From: Active8
Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2003 16:21

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> Windows defaults to least-secure settings when installed. Why?
> 
> Apple/UNIX/Linux/VMS/Solaris security lapses are measured in bugs per
> year, and often clock in at zero. Windows bugs run several per week.
> 
> John
> 
not to mention - at least as far as Linux is concerned - the kernel team 
(or whatever the article one of the Linux mags called it) responds 
quikly to reported vulnerabilities. one guy reported that he sent 
himself a malformed packet that screwed things up and they had the patch 
ready within 24 hrs. it was an "In the Trenches Article."

MS, on the other hand likes to deny vulnerabilities. it's pretty 
negligent, AFAIC.

mike

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