The 'inherently secure' mythology

Message ID: 369436

Posted By: deepdistrust

Subject: The 'inherently secure' mythology

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,193749,00.html

The Nuts proclaim Linux is 'inherently secure' because it is based on Unix. The OS X folks may soon be learning that being based on Unix is not a panacea to security woes.

In the real world, security breaches occur in unexpected ways. It's not always the grand design that matters, it is mostly the little details. Flaws in application programs, weak passwords, and social engineering account for the vast majority of security problems.

There are plent of buffer overflows in Linux programs. (Yes, frog, a buffer overflow is by far the most common flaw exploited by viruses to execute arbitry code. Just because you don't know a damn thing about security, it doesn't mean I will stop saying that.) Linux users will be sitting ducks if anybody develops a virus for Linux.

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