RE: [Fed-Talk] ammo: mi2g OS X is world's safest and most secure
RE: [Fed-Talk] ammo: mi2g OS X is world's safest and most secure
- Subject: RE: [Fed-Talk] ammo: mi2g OS X is world's safest and most secure
- From: "Cashwell, Mike" <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 4 Nov 2004 12:34:45 -0500
- Thread-topic: [Fed-Talk] ammo: mi2g OS X is world's safest and most secure
Title: RE: [Fed-Talk] ammo: mi2g OS X is world's safest and most secure
I think caution is called for here. While anyone with any real information would know that Mac OS X is more secure than Windows, some of what's being said and done here is a bit of a stretch.
If I read it right this study is just a statistical measure of the number of break-ins per platform. I didn't see any controls for what service the different machines were doing nor any correction for platform visibility. Sure, a bottom-line measure like this is interesting but it's wrong to conclude that the different is only due to inherent security differences.
As the Opener script shows there are more miscreants out there lately taking notice of Mac OS X.
Just keeping it real...
-Mike
-----Original Message-----
From: fed-talk-bounces+cashwell=email@hidden on behalf of Stephen Bates
Sent: Wed 11/3/2004 4:53 PM
To: email@hidden
Subject: [Fed-Talk] ammo: mi2g OS X is world's safest and most secure
: mi2g Intelligence Unit - most secure computing environment
"The most comprehensive study ever undertaken by the mi2g Intelligence
Unit over 12 months reveals that the world's safest and most secure
24/7 online computing environment - operating system plus applications
- is proving to be the Open Source platform of BSD (Berkley Software
Distribution) and the Mac OS X based on Darwin. [snip]"
http://www.mi2g.com/cgi/mi2g/press/021104.php
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