Subject: Re: Help with setting up a pop server
From: Graham Leggett (minfrin@sharp.fm)
Date: Sun Aug 05 2001 - 14:34:56 MDT
Robert Brandtjen wrote:
> Hmm - if you look at the number of web sites with security breeches, FreeBSD
> with Apache ranks number 1
Do you have an URL of these published figures?
> - that doesn't mean its the least secure set-up
> nor the easiest to breech, it means in this case (since if you look closer
> and way the number sites being hosted divided by the number of breeches , MS
> comes out as the most insecure) that it is the most popular, serving far and
> away more then any other combination.
Why is this relevant?
A security hole is a hole regardless of the number of people using it.
Something doesn't suddenly become less or more secure because it is
popular.
Regards,
Graham
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