[Gllug] M$ Technet?

[Bruce Richardson]

On 7/31/01, 11:10:10 AM, Gordon Joly <gordon.joly at pobox.com> wrote 
regarding Re: [Gllug] M$ Technet?:

> Can worms (and viruses) jump the species boundary?

No, but there was a certain amount of glee in some reports of the Lion 
and Ramen worms - "See, they get these problems too."  Crowing about 
MS vulnerabilities as if they never happen on Linux is 
counter-productive: as soon as a Linux exploit hits the news the 
negative reaction leaves us worse off than we were before and nobody 
is interested when you say "Ah, yes but it's only version X of distro 
Y and the fix was out in a day".  

The message that Linux is more secure and reliable (rather than 
bulletproof) in the hands of a competent administrator is less 
dramatic but more true and gives up fewer hostages to fortune.

-- 

Bruce





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