From: Doug Augustyn (optix_at_six5535.org)
Date: Fri Apr 16 2004 - 12:37:14 PDT
Being a UNIX and Windows admin, I can safely say that is is
_not_ the OS that makes the system secure. It's the user.
I completely agree with you on that.
Windows users in general are not "overly burdened with
intelligence" with what _not_ to download/execute.
One of my gripes with windows is the way privileged ports
are handled: they aren't. Even a guest user can bind a
process to a privileged port. Completely insane.
Responding to Martin Joseph's comment:
||Actually this is not really true...
||
||unfortunately many recent Windows worm attacks are what
|| we refer to as social engineering attacks.
||
||This means they rely on the stupid user to execute
|| something nasty.
||
||Unix users using OSX are just as stupid (flamebait?) as
|| windows users in general, and could easily be tricked
|| into opening executables that do nasty things of all
|| sorts.
||
||So while UNIX has a reputation (deservedly) as being
|| pretty secure, the users remain the weak link...
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