pwn to own. Was Linux really more secure?

http://www.builderau.com.au/news/soa/Ubuntu-more-secure-than-Leopard-Windows-Vis
ta-/0,339028227,339287864,00.htm

<quote>

Jeff Waugh, from Waugh Partners, an Australian **open source** consulting 
firm, commented that this result should not be seen as a guarantee that 
Ubuntu based systems are more secure.

"Certainly one of the exploits [the Flash exploit], WOULD have allowed
entry 
into the Linux system as well," said Waugh, who added that the lower 
penetration of Linux-based systems gave such systems a security advantage.

"There are not a lot of people focusing on [Ubuntu], because it's not a
high 
profile system. The kind of people participating in this event ... would 
want the crowning glory from finding something tasty in Windows or Mac OS 
X," Waugh said. Waugh said that this also highlighted that the OS is not
the 
principal security weakness in a desktop.

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"Cork Soaker" <Cork@Soaker.invalid> wrote in message 
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> <snip>
>
> Old news.

It's news from today.

You probably prefer to read [News] from the 1990's falsely claiming some NSA 
backdoor in Windows 98. I'm sure that you and the other retards consider 
that to be current news.



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On Thu, 03 Apr 2008 12:01:39 -0400, Ezekiel wrote:

> http://www.builderau.com.au/news/soa/Ubuntu-more-secure-than-Leopard-
Windows-Vista-/0,339028227,339287864,00.htm
> 
> <quote>
> 
> Jeff Waugh, from Waugh Partners, an Australian **open source**
> consulting firm, commented that this result should not be seen as a
> guarantee that Ubuntu based systems are more secure.
> 
> "Certainly one of the exploits [the Flash exploit], WOULD have
allowed
> entry into the Linux system as well," said Waugh, who added that the
> lower penetration of Linux-based systems gave such systems a security
> advantage.

That, apparently, remains to be proved.


> 
> "There are not a lot of people focusing on [Ubuntu], because it's not
a
> high profile system. The kind of people participating in this event ...
> would want the crowning glory from finding something tasty in Windows or
> Mac OS X," Waugh said. Waugh said that this also highlighted that the
OS
> is not the principal security weakness in a desktop.
> 
> </quote>

<snip>

Ezekiel wrote:


> 
> You probably prefer to read [News] from the 1990's falsely claiming some
> NSA backdoor in Windows 98. I'm sure that you and the other retards
> consider that to be current news.
> 
>