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Title: Proven: Windows is more secure than Linux out of the box
Post by: preacher on 21 March 2004, 22:53
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 (http://trends.newsforge.com/trends/04/03/16/1915249.shtml)
Title: Proven: Windows is more secure than Linux out of the box
Post by: restin256 on 21 March 2004, 23:03
quote:
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 ]

Title: Proven: Windows is more secure than Linux out of the box
Post by: Xeen on 21 March 2004, 23:05
LOL! For a second there before I read that article I thought you were actually serious.
Title: Proven: Windows is more secure than Linux out of the box
Post by: preacher on 21 March 2004, 23:05
quote:
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.
Title: Proven: Windows is more secure than Linux out of the box
Post by: WMD on 21 March 2004, 23:07
Restin...this article is a joke...

 
quote:
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...  (http://tongue.gif)

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

Title: Proven: Windows is more secure than Linux out of the box
Post by: Refalm 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 (http://www.loadux.com/freeservers.html)
Title: Proven: Windows is more secure than Linux out of the box
Post by: restin256 on 22 March 2004, 21:41
I found out I was wrong, and posted it on a few other forums. :b
Title: Proven: Windows is more secure than Linux out of the box
Post by: young1024 on 26 March 2004, 21:46
quote:
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.
Title: Proven: Windows is more secure than Linux out of the box
Post by: TrappedWindowsUser 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.