Wednesday, July 07, 2004

How Secure is Your OS?

People have been claiming for some time now (years?) that Linux, Unix, and Mac OS X are more secure than Windows. I've been saying that this claim is crap. That Windows appears less secure because hackers target it more often simply because it's in much greater use. Guess what? I'm right. Computer Weekly points to research done by the Danish security firm Secunia. As usual, some OS publishers disagreed with the findings.

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