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Apparently it was an application, rather than the OS that was hacked. In this case. But people have been hacking at Linux and its antecedant Unix for 25 years, and they will continue. There have been occasional successes in the past and there will be in the future.

Banks get held up, even the Brinks Company was robbed. The World Trade Towers were toppled. Any security professional will tell you there is no such thing as perfect security - security is measured in the amount of effort required to compromise, not some binary "crackable" vs "uncrackable" measure.

The sun rises in the East. Have we got enough obvious posts?
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typo?  stephen732@... | 12/03/03
Link  vdraken | 12/03/03
weak, did you read the report?  stephen732@... | 12/03/03
And Linux still must reach it.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 12/03/03
yes m$ barely reached MINIMUM for MODERATE levels of security  stephen732@... | 12/03/03
And Linux has yet to do so.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 12/03/03
read article  stephen732@... | 12/03/03
Good wishes towards Red Hat  FilledOut | 12/03/03
Good for both Linux and Red Hat.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 12/03/03
It also proves you wrong on one count.....  Jose Jimenez | 12/03/03
Huh? IBM spent a billion $$$.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 12/03/03
This little gem of yours  Jose Jimenez | 12/03/03
You need to READ what I say...  No_Ax_to_Grind | 12/03/03
Two separate issues  Jose Jimenez | 12/03/03
Half right...  No_Ax_to_Grind | 12/03/03
The GPL is only 1 of many "Open Source" licences  B.O.F.H. | 12/03/03
I'm sorry, I thought you understood...  No_Ax_to_Grind | 12/03/03
Here's the full listing for NIAP and CC eval  acaluya | 12/03/03
W2K: Highly 'Secure'?  michael-t | 12/03/03
Naturally  John Dulles | 12/03/03
are you implying...  stephen732@... | 12/03/03
hmm, can you say bribe?  engel000 | 12/05/03
Closed source  svenkatr | 12/03/03
Message has been deleted.  Damon K | 12/03/03
Geez!! If M$ cant get one anyone should be able too!!!  supoman | 12/03/03
I answered your question.  vdraken | 12/03/03
Domain registry site gets hacked - running on Linux/Apache  marksashton | 12/03/03
Wasn't the operating system that was hacked  Jose Jimenez | 12/03/03
And that matters how?  No_Ax_to_Grind | 12/03/03
A few years back the Navy tested a "Smart Ship" running Windows NT  B.O.F.H. | 12/03/03
Just like Windows 2000  Jose Jimenez | 12/03/03
It matters because,  ryusen | 12/04/03
Except this is not news  IT_User | 12/03/03
If you got a bad admin, never mind the OS  FilledOut | 12/04/03
bad admin never mind the OS  hipparchus | 12/04/03

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