I also think that no O.S is more secure than others in really significant ways. The reason Windows is hit more often than not is because it has a bulk of the users, especially those on desktops. Most of them are novices in computing but more importantly, if you are to look at them as a market, you get the most supply from that lot. At the least you can make most profits (credit cards numbers, machines to take over as zombies, email account / password pairs etc) from them. Linux and other open source systems in my opinion are more vulnerable security wise. The reason is that they are more open to audit, their flaws if present are fully exposed to the whole world for scrutiny and exploitation (Heartbleed, numerous 0-day holes in kernels, compilers, www servers etc). Suprisingly, UNIX systems were not designed with security in mind from the word go. The most important goal for its creators was to enable people share computing resources at the same time in Universities and Research labs. Those were highly trusted environments, security came as an afterthought (Read the section named "Deficient by Design" for more: http://homes.cs.washington.edu/~weise/preface.html A primary cause there is lesser malware in the world right now is that their authors (mostly rogue Russian and Chinese programmers) are now busy writing apps for Mobile devices, selling them at App stores for cash :) Martin. On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 5:45 PM, Stephen Munguti via skunkworks < skunkworks@lists.my.co.ke> wrote:
i think, it depends on your level of knowledge of OS systems. If you don't know much then go for windows, they have you covered in terms of security and all. I think this is why hackers are interested in windows, this is the only platform you can easily find targets. If you are good with OS then go for linux, you definitely need to peek under it to find out whats happening now and then and have to keep up with releases and apps that need to be tweaked further to work. Generally its for hands on people.
However, you can be an OS guru and still use windows. Now you have redundancy, you and Microsoft.
On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 5:04 PM, Brian L via skunkworks < skunkworks@lists.my.co.ke> wrote:
@Jangita don't bring out the Okechukwu [?] fan boys.
But the best definitely is not linux from a desktop user point of view.
Sort of brings into perspective how unpopular windows has become or is it just growth of other operating systems.
On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 4:49 PM, Jangita Nyagudi via skunkworks < skunkworks@lists.my.co.ke> wrote:
which is better bmw or benz?
(as i grab my pop corn)
On 24 February 2015 at 17:06, geoffrey gitagia via skunkworks < skunkworks@lists.my.co.ke> wrote:
It's simple the more popular the OS the more interest hackers have in it , plus think of it this way too , no one has been developing tools to protect linux or OSX (antivirus , system scan tools) , making it an open playing field .
On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 3:21 PM, Bwana Lawi via skunkworks < skunkworks@lists.my.co.ke> wrote:
Considering Safari browser is not listed on the top vulnerable applications, I'd say the most secure platform is Safari on Windows Vista :)
On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 1:57 PM, Brian Ngure via skunkworks < skunkworks@lists.my.co.ke> wrote:
I don't believe it. Even if it is true, I still don't believe it.
On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 1:43 PM, Brian L via skunkworks < skunkworks@lists.my.co.ke> wrote:
> Is this <http://goo.gl/PmBF9o> just propaganda? > > Admittedly I have been using windows 7 and windows 8 for desktop > since moving from Ubuntu in in 2012. > > > -- > Lusiola Brian > |3 R 1 /-\ |\| > > > _______________________________________________ > skunkworks mailing list > skunkworks@lists.my.co.ke > ------------ > List info, subscribe/unsubscribe > http://lists.my.co.ke/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/skunkworks > ------------ > > Skunkworks Rules > http://my.co.ke/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=94 > ------------ > Other services @ http://my.co.ke >
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