On 02/16/2009 06:55 PM, JoeHill wrote: [snip]
No, popularity has very little to do with it. Windows is compromised a lot because it is trivial to do so. Linux could have twice the market share as Windows, and it would still be less prone to invasion, simply because it is more difficult to do so. This has been demonstrated time and time again in both real world and simulated 'contests'. Hands down, Linux is a hundred times more difficult to crack.
Except that misconfigured Apache, MySQL, SSH, etc, etc, etc daemons can (and do! leave Linux servers wide open to attack.
Thus: know what you're doing before bringing your computer to Mos Eisley.
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