On 4/22/06, Michael Chaney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 07:47:43PM -0700, Ariz Jacinto wrote: > > activity of attacks regardless if successful or not. > > severity can be found on security websites. > > This underscores a point, though. Everytime you tell a Windows person > that Linux is far more secure, the mantra is "yeah, that's because > hackers like linux so they don't attack it as much". So we can't have > it both ways. If, in fact, Linux is attacked (successful or not) with > the same frequency as windows (and I would assume this is the case), > then in fact it goes to show all the more that linux is much more > secure. >
But windows hackers are mostly windows programmers right? Majority of these dont know unix at all. The typical script kiddie attack linux because they hate linux and when they fail they dig deeper. There are a lot of people out there who hate linux. > Of course, we're using "linux" in the broadest sense possible here, > probably not just to mean "linux-based operating systems" but in face > "open source operating systems". > > Michael > -- > Michael Darrin Chaney > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.michaelchaney.com/ > _________________________________________________ > Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List > [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) > Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists > Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph > -- www.smsglobal.net SMS Global Ltd Short Message Service For Seafarers _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
