*BSD is considered the safest OS

[Henrik W Lund]

Jorn Argelo wrote:
> On Tue, 2 Nov 2004 12:12:54 -0500 (PET), Richard Cotrina wrote
> 
>>Perhaps this is an old news, but it's interesting to post it to the list.
>>
>>A recent study made by MI2G, an UK company focused in data risk
>>security, shows that *BSD and MacOS X were the less breached OS in a
>>sample of more that 200K computers permanently connected to the internet.
> 
> 
> I personally don't feel that any OS is safer then the other. It's just what 
> the administrator does. A Linux guru can't secure a Windows machine as good as 
> a Windows guru can, and vica versa. 
> 
> One can say that a particular OS attracks more experienced administrators. 
> Perhaps. But again it's the administrator which is the crucial fact of an OS 
> being secure or not. It's rather easy to say that Windows is less secure then 
> Linux or BSD because there are more viruses/exploits for Window. Well, I think 
> that services like Sendmail and Apache can contain more exploits then Windows, 
> to be honest. Of course, I can't prove anything, but that's just my personal 
> feeling about it.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Jorn

Actually, I read somewhere that UNIX systems are more vulnerable to 
buffer overflows than Windows systems. Can't confirm the validity of 
this, though.

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Henrik W Lund