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Operating Systems => Linux and UNIX => Topic started by: slave on 8 June 2002, 07:44
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Vulnerability tracker gives Windows cleaner bill of health than Open Source
http://www.vnunet.com/News/1128907 (http://www.vnunet.com/News/1128907)
"Windows suffered fewer security vulnerabilities than Linux last year, according to figures released by vulnerability tracker SecurityFocus."
"For five years straight, in fact, Windows has come out less scathed than Linux, with 2000 pinpointed as the most significant year when Linux suffered over 150 vulnerabilities and Windows fell just short of 100."
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vnunet sucks. try the register (http://www.theregister.co.uk), at least they're funny.
feel your trolling advantage slipping away any, xp boy?
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The Register would never report something like this as they are biased Linux advocates. You cannot deny it, however, regardless of who said it. No one can honestly say Linux is more secure than Windows if they look at the facts; Linux is just more unpopular. Even many Linux advocates will admit this. When Microsoft hiccups, everyone hears about it. Tux can catch Ebola and people seem to just sweep it under the rug.
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Very few people trust vnunet for anything more than a waste of space.
Your last few posts have been useless.
Your runnig out of evidence aren't you?
Don't you have anything better to do than post here trying to get people to use Windows instead?
I wouldn't have replied to this, but someone already had, so I thought 'what the hell'.
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PS I'm not trolling, I'm informing.
There's a big difference.
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XP, I think you should just leave here and never return. The admins are getting quite testy about your recent behavior, and I wouldn't be surprised if a few of the moderators started pulling the ol' usenet death penalty on your posts.
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Originally posted by Heru:
Very few people trust vnunet for anything more than a waste of space.
Your last few posts have been useless.
Your runnig out of evidence aren't you?
Don't you have anything better to do than post here trying to get people to use Windows instead?
I wouldn't have replied to this, but someone already had, so I thought 'what the hell'.
You have obviously closed your mind to any possibility that Linux isn't the OS it's sometimes cracked up to be. Just look at the facts, and it will be clear to you. I notice you didn't responded with any counter-evidence of your own to disprove these claims. So, why don't you practice what you preach? Instead of replying with the same old "Linux rules, get lost XP Luser" crap I hear 99.9% of the time I bring someting like this to your attention, try something more original.
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XP, you are not informing.
Each piece of 'information' you have provided us with has been half informed or from questionable web sites.
Post something from a website that we trust. Better yet why don't you go read the news articles about the reports from the US Defense Department that say the Linux and various Unixes are more secure than Windows. The US DD has adopted Linux/Unix for a reason.
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Originally posted by Ravuya:
XP, I think you should just leave here and never return. The admins are getting quite testy about your recent behavior, and I wouldn't be surprised if a few of the moderators started pulling the ol' usenet death penalty on your posts.
So, trying to get away with the ol' intimidation game, eh? Well, if they ban me, that's fine, I'll just recreate as Windows XP User #5225982376 and resume. I have a dynamic IP address anyway; it changes every time I connect.
If you are "enraged" by my posts so much, then don't respond to them. No one's making you reply to my postings. They're "utter nonsense" anyway, right? Aren't you wasting your time responding to nonsense?
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Post something from a website that we trust.
In other words, post something from a biased Linux website like Slashdot or The Register. I'll post articles from Microsoft's website if I think they have merit.
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Better yet why don't you go read the news articles about the reports from the US Defense Department that say the Linux and various Unixes are more secure than Windows.
Could you provide hyperlinks, per chance?
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Originally posted by Windows XP User #5225982375:
Could you provide hyperlinks, per chance?
Yes.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A60050-2002May22.html (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A60050-2002May22.html)
http://www.esecurityplanet.com/trends/article/0,,10751_1276831,00.html (http://www.esecurityplanet.com/trends/article/0,,10751_1276831,00.html)
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Originally posted by Windows XP User #5225982375:
In other words, post something from a biased Linux website like Slashdot or The Register. I'll post articles from Microsoft's website if I think they have merit.
Actually, not quite.
I mean like the links TheQuirk just posted.
You know, trusted newspapers, like the Washington Post or trusted enews sites like news.com
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Look dumb ass XP Luser. The numbers in that study have been proven to be bull shit, and it isn't hard to figure out that if the four top Linux distros have the same 25 vulnerabilities you can't add them together and say Linux has 100 vulnerabilities. Duh! And in fact none of the vulnerabilities are "OS" related. They are from applications that you don't get with M$ OSes and have to get them separately. Some of them I can download and run on M$ in which case, should have been counted as another vulnerability for M$.
You want a link? Here's a link:
http://www.trustworthycomputing.com (http://www.trustworthycomputing.com)
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Originally posted by VoidMain:
and it isn't hard to figure out that if the four top Linux distros have the same 25 vulnerabilities you can't add them together and say Linux has 100 vulnerabilities. Duh!
Great point. It is like this: last week 30 seperate Linux distros anounced a vulnerability in bind, now smart people realize that makes one vulnerability total, but vnunet would prolly say 'Linux has 30 new vulnerabilities this week'.
[ June 08, 2002: Message edited by: Heru ]
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And in my opinion, every new script kiddy virus (a new one a day) that is propagated through M$ Lookout should be counted as a vulnerability. Not a single one of them has effected me in *any* of the many email clients for Linux. What would that bring the M$ total up to, 10,000 vulnerabilities or more?
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And if you count the exploits that haven't been found yet because of the closed source, Windoez probably has alot more.
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you are all responding to the loser, and it makes him high on his own juices. don't waste your time.
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XP Luser i want you to PROVE to me that my Linux box is not secure
it's running Mandrake 8.0 just so you know which source code to look through in order to hack it.
the ip is 66.222.162.55 and port 27015 is ALWAYS open just so you can find your way in. the accounts are 'shawn' and 'root'
now that you know where my computer is, which door is open and what users there are, find your way in and delete my /root folder.....if you can
i won't say the IP to the computer i'm now because i don't want people hacking my stuff, it took me a long time to configure the game server i have on this thing :eek:
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he won't. do not waste your time.
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originally posted by the dickhead:
If you are "enraged" by my posts so much, then don't respond to them. No one's making you reply to my postings. They're "utter nonsense" anyway, right? Aren't you wasting your time responding to nonsense?
this is the ONLY thing he has posted that i agree with. Take heed.
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Originally posted by Chooco:
XP Luser i want you to PROVE to me that my Linux box is not secure
it's running Mandrake 8.0 just so you know which source code to look through in order to hack it.
the ip is 66.222.162.55 and port 27015 is ALWAYS open just so you can find your way in. the accounts are 'shawn' and 'root'
now that you know where my computer is, which door is open and what users there are, find your way in and delete my /root folder.....if you can
i won't say the IP to the computer i'm now because i don't want people hacking my stuff, it took me a long time to configure the game server i have on this thing :eek:
Actually, I think it would be kind of cool if we had a server with the latest secure linux kernel ver. and firewall software. and then had another server with WIN XP Adv Server. And then we could let everyone have the ip addys and port numbers that would be used for exploitation, and then let them go at it. It would be more exciting than most things I can think of. Sort of a sporting event for nerds.
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It's really a shame that this arsehole's topic has received 21 (!!) replies. Can't you get it through your heads that you're giving this moron credit? Everyone knows which OS is more secure. So why keep saying the same things over and over again?
PS Don't take my messages as any form of replying to this shithead.
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PS Don't take my messages as any form of replying to this shithead.
Who yo' callin' shithead, shithead?
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umm, i would be pleased to be given the proverbial pooper scooper to pick up and throw away xp lusers useless and generaly misinformed shit, but it's still is pretty damned funny to read shit posted by dumbasses
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Originally posted by hoojchoons:
It's really a shame that this arsehole's topic has received 21 (!!) replies. Can't you get it through your heads that you're giving this moron credit? Everyone knows which OS is more secure. So why keep saying the same things over and over again?
PS Don't take my messages as any form of replying to this shithead.
I wasn replying to him either, but I was just bringing up an idea that would be cool. We could call it "The hacker Olimpycs"! It would be great.