[slightly OT/advocacy] The world's safest computing environment

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http://www.mi2g.com/cgi/mi2g/frameset.php?pageid=http%3A//www.mi2g.com/cgi/mi2g/press/021104.php

sorry about the frame.  here are some highlights for people w/o browser:

London, UK - 2 November 2004, 02:30 GMT - The most comprehensive study ever
undertaken by the mi2g Intelligence Unit over 12 months reveals that the
world's safest and most secure 24/7 online computing environment - operating
system plus applications - is proving to be the Open Source platform of BSD
(Berkley Software Distribution) and the Mac OS X based on Darwin. This is good
news for Apple Computers(AAPL) whose shares have outperformed the benchmark
NASDAQ, S&P and Dow indices as well as Microsoft (MSFT) by over 100% in the
last six months on the back of revived sales and profits. The last twelve
months have witnessed the deadliest annual period in terms of malware - virus,
worm and trojan - proliferation targeting Windows based machines in which over
200 countries and tens of millions of computers worldwide have been infected
month-in month-out.


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Most breached computing environment - Overall

The study also reveals that Linux has become the most breached 24/7 online
computing environment in terms of manual hacker attacks overall and accounts
for 65.64% of all breaches recorded, with 154,846 successfully compromised
Linux 24/7 online computers of all flavours. The number of successful manual
hacker attacks against Microsoft Windows based online computers has remained
steady and accounts for 25.19% of all breaches recorded, with 59,419
successfully compromised Windows targets of all versions. In sharp contrast,
the number of successful hacker attacks against Mac OS X or BSD based online
computers has demonstrated a declining trend and accounts for just 4.82% of all
breaches recorded, with 11,370 successfully compromised BSD targets of all
flavours including Apple. 


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Conclusion

"More and more smart individuals, government agencies and corporations are
shifting towards Apple and BSD environments in 2004," according to DK Matai,
Executive Chairman, mi2g. "For how long can the truth remain hidden that the
great emperors of the software industry are wearing no clothes fit for the
fluid environment in which computing takes place, where new threats manifest
every hour of every day. There is an accelerating paradigm shift visible in
2004 and busy professionals have spotted the benefits of Apple and BSD because
they don't have the time to cope with umpteen flavours of Linux or to wait for
Microsoft's Longhorn when Windows XP has proved to be a stumbling block in some
well chronicled instances."


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