Just a little post from the InfoWeapons company blog: --- Security Through Deception June 25th, 2007 by Maddog http://www.infoweapons.com/blog
Microsoft seems to have an interesting security and marketing strategy. Instead of actually coming up with better security than its competitors, the company instead chooses to simply make people think that it has. "Security through deception" should be their new slogan. Here's the latest bit from Microsoft's Trustworthy Computing Group as reported in a story by the NewsFactor Network: Microsoft now claims that Windows Vista is more secure than Linux! The basis for the story can be found in "The Windows Vista Six-Month Day Vulnerability Report." The report is available as a PDF download on the blog Microsoft's security strategy director, Jeff Jones. In this report, Jones counts the number of security fixes and disclosures for Windows Vista in the first six months of availability, and then compares the numbers to those for the same period for Windows XP, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 WS, Ubuntu 6.06 LTS Desktop, Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger). To his credit, Jones makes an attempt at an apples-to-apples comparison by analyzing reduced installations of Linux, excluding those components that that you would not on a typical desktop workstation. The conclusions, however, are exactly what you would expect: it is at least implied that Vista is more secure because of fewer counted flaws. Read the entire post at: http://www.infoweapons.com/blog/?p=27 --- Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought. -- Pope John Paul II --[Manny [EMAIL PROTECTED] Member: Philippine League for Democratic Telecommunications Alternative Information and Opinion at http://www.phnix.net Pro-Life Philippines website -- http://www.prolife.org.ph --[Open Minds Philippines]--------------------[openminds.linux.org.ph]-- _________________________________________________ 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
