On Fri, Oct 08, 2004 at 02:32:02PM -0500, John Thompson wrote: > exploits. If this were true, however, we would expect that in markets > where Windows has less penetration -- e.g. internet severs, where > Windows servers comprise ~40% of the market -- that Windows should only > suffer ~40% of the exploits in this arena. That is not what we see, > however: even with ~40% of the internet server market, Windows still > suffers ~95% of the significant exploits. One can conclude from this > that Windows is inherently less secure than other platforms. One can conclude all sorts of things. :) But the one you've picked doesn't necessarily follow. 95% of desktop share might lead to increased incentive and ability to develop exploits, which then _happen_ to also work when the same OS is used in other markets -- leading to more exploits there than you would expect by looking at that segment in a vacuum. -- Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://www.mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/>
