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Originally Posted by scastle
As Bifta says (above), I suspect the main reason that Windows is the most compromised operating system is not because it is inherantly any less secure than any other OS, but simply because it is the most popular.
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That's illogical though - it doesn't follow that a popular OS is more likely to be hacked. The reason Windows is a target is (a) it's full of holes; and (b) everybody (apart from CF posters
) hates Microsoft - it embodies everything that is bad about capitalism. Are Apache webservers constantly being hacked? Is Apache full of security holes? Nope - but it is the most popular webserver.
With open source everybody can see the source, see the bugs, and fix the bugs - no reliance on a company to be honest and to provide a patch. It's a better system and hopefully, one day, all software will be open source and companies will make their money out of supporting the software.