On Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 04:20:42PM -0000, Keith Watson wrote:
From: Lewis Collard
If you are asking whether GNU/Linux boxes can be used as drones in this kind of attack, then this thread should be named "Is GNU/Linux more secure than Windows?".
:o)
Its irrelevant either way, all OS are completely insecure if they are not maintained and observed etc. Windows makes a few more mistakes out of the box because of "ease of use" possibly but then most operating systems if they are not patched/maintained etc. etc. after install will be just as crackable as each other sooner or later.
Even OpenBSD which had a perfect record for around 7 years had a remote root exploit in the default install, just because the OpenBSD team are more proactive about security didn't mean you were safe. The day that security hole was found OpenBSD became critically insecure and was as insecure as anything else.
Adam