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The myth that MS is attacked because its more popular

Windows is attacked because it is weak and inherently secure. Ask yourself this. Fort Knox is secure, right? And 2 Fort Knox's are secure, right? And 100 Fort Knox's, they'd all be secure, yes? And 100,000 Fort Knox's they would all be equally secure, yes? So what is this stupid, Microsoft sponsored argument that Windows is attacked more because it's popular? IF Windows was secure, it wouldn't matter whether there were 10, 1000,100000000000 instances of it. They would all be equally secure. But Windows is inherently insecure, by design, and so it doesn't matter whether there are 10, 100, 100000000 instances of Windows, they are all equally insecure and THAT is why they get attacked.

While you're picking the bones out of that, have a lok at http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2005/05/index.html, the web server statistics. You will see that 70% of every web server on the WWW is running Open Source Apache. Just 21% of web servers on the www are running Microsoft's IS. And which web server gets 95% of all succesfull hack attacks? Microsft's of course! WHich kind of puts paid to the "it gets hit cos its more popular" argument. Microsoft IIS and Windows get hacked and hit more BECAUSE THEY ARE INHERENTLY INSECURE.

Posted by: whisperycat   Posted on: 05/05/05 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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