Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on December 22, 2003 08:27 PM
> "Taking advantage of security flaws in Unix/Linux requires a much more in depth understanding of the operating system then in the Windows environment."
Really..? why. I think the oposite, having source code and an open environment makes it less hard to exploit these vulnerabilities.. atleast not harder than on windows.. The open nature for me is very natural, it results in more transparancy for bug fixing as well as bug exploiting.. It's also sad why some people say open source code is bad for security, nonsense. If it is bad for security then this is probably something statistical, it cannot be proven at all, and if it were statistically more vulnerable, I'd still prefer the natural open source model.
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Re:Some of my survey answers
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on December 22, 2003 08:27 PMReally..? why.
I think the oposite, having source code and an open environment makes it less hard to exploit these vulnerabilities.. atleast not harder than on windows..
The open nature for me is very natural, it results in more transparancy for bug fixing as well as bug exploiting..
It's also sad why some people say open source code is bad for security, nonsense.
If it is bad for security then this is probably something statistical, it cannot be proven at all, and if it were statistically more vulnerable, I'd still prefer the natural open source model.
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