just incase you missed it

[Trent Shipley]

Would this be true of all *NIX operating systems.  That is, is a Solaris or
SPARC as prone to exploits as a McLinux system?  What about the much touted
OpenBSD or the pretty proprietary AIX?

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> [mailto:plug-discuss-admin@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us]On Behalf Of Tom
> Bradford
> Sent: Tuesday, May 08, 2001 2:37 PM
> To: plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
> Subject: Re: just incase you missed it
>
>
> George Toft wrote:
> > Yes it would.  Read the weekly highlights from Security Portal
> and be aware
> > that there are about 3-4 times as many Linux exploits each week
> > than Microsoft exploits.  Of course, this can be countered with
> > the fact that a Linux distribution provides 20x (WAG) more software
> > on the CD's than Microsoft does with Windows.
>
> Yeah, but... That 20x more software isn't predominately stuff that is
> exposed via the network, such as all of the stuff that inetd provides,
> sendmail, etc...  So you're really comparing apples and oranges.  The
> bulk of a Linux distro is stuff that wouldn't even qualify for root
> exploits.  There aren't any Notepad.exe exploits that I know of, and the
> class of most of that bulk would fall into that same category.  So
> obviously Linux's network exposure is relatively quite a bit more prone
> to exploit than Microsoft's.
>
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