Reply to post: Re: Confused heyrick... Ho humm this old saw again.

Oh SNAP! Old-school '80s Unix hack to smack OSX, iOS, Red Hat?

LaeMing

Re: Confused heyrick... Ho humm this old saw again.

"I said many years ago, in response to "Linux is completely secure!" type statements, that Linux was secure THEN because it was not important enough to be an attack vector. With Windows 8 not flying out the door and many many mobile phones running a variant; it has now matured into something worth attacking"

Of course back many years ago, Windows was only a majority player on the Desktop, while the vast bulk of externally-connected servers (the ones serious hackers want to attack) were *NIX. These days, I believe, the spread between *NIX and Windows on the server is closer to 50:50, so by your argument attacks on *NIX systems should be going DOWN!

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