Author Topic: Proven: Windows is more secure than Linux out of the box  (Read 668 times)

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Windows is more secure than linux out of the box and this article proves it. For once I have to agree with this position.

http://trends.newsforge.com/trends/04/03/16/1915249.shtml
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Proven: Windows is more secure than Linux out of the box
« Reply #1 on: 21 March 2004, 23:03 »
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After years of petty squabbling between the most innovative company in the software industry and a few pesky upstart hippie developers over which of their operating systems is more secure, the


I stopped reading there, it's an obviously biased article. Anybody calling Microsoft "innovative" is being paid or brainwashed, or both, to do so.

EDIT: I'm a retard. I guess I didn't see the URL, "NEWSFORGE"   :rolleyes:

[ March 21, 2004: Message edited by: restin256 ]


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« Reply #2 on: 21 March 2004, 23:05 »
LOL! For a second there before I read that article I thought you were actually serious.

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« Reply #3 on: 21 March 2004, 23:05 »
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Originally posted by restin256:


I stopped reading there, it's an obviously biased article. Anybody calling Microsoft "innovative" is being paid or brainwashed, or both, to do so.



Read the whole article please. Its good.
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« Reply #4 on: 21 March 2004, 23:07 »
Restin...this article is a joke...

 
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We are forced to admit that, with the use of certificates, stickers, and serial numbers, Windows vastly outpaces Linux security out of the box.


  :rolleyes:  

EDIT: ok, he gets it now...thank god...  

[ March 21, 2004: Message edited by: WMD ]

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« Reply #5 on: 21 March 2004, 23:30 »
Prove that Linux is more out of the box than Windows and comes in an envelope to your home for free!

http://www.loadux.com/freeservers.html

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« Reply #6 on: 22 March 2004, 21:41 »
I found out I was wrong, and posted it on a few other forums. :b

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« Reply #7 on: 26 March 2004, 21:46 »
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We are forced to admit that, with the use of certificates, stickers, and serial numbers, Windows vastly outpaces Linux security out of the box.


LOL! Looks like a case of insecurity for Microsoft... Linux dosen't NEED those things.
Just pretend there's a really cool sig here.

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« Reply #8 on: 10 April 2004, 01:48 »
This was actually posted on another forum I visit.

Whoever started posting the direct URL to this thing is EVIL. The person who originally posted it must have known that it's in the "Humor" section.

i.e. the whole article is sarcasm. And very funny.