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[Phil Stracchino]

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John W. Moore III wrote:
> Assuming that You have neither the Capital nor desire to completely
> revamp/replace Your present configuration then simply choose to become
> proactive about Your own safeguards.  As long as M$ continues to be the
> dominant O/S in the World it will always attract the most attention from
> exploiters.

Plus, frankly, it's the low-hanging fruit.  Not only is it a more
vulnerable OS in the first place, it's far more likely to be unprotected
on the 'Net and far more likely to be owned by users who don't know the
first thing about how to secure it.

While it's true there are exploits in the wild for Linux and OSX, they
tend to be (a) much less common in the first place, (b) somewhat
mitigated by the inherently better security design of the OS, and (c)
usually patched much more quickly.


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  Phil Stracchino, CDK#2     DoD#299792458     ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355
  alaric at caerllewys.net   alaric at metrocast.net   phil at co.ordinate.org
         Renaissance Man, Unix ronin, Perl hacker, Free Stater
                 It's not the years, it's the mileage.
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