Popularity causes weak programs?
Posted: Wed Sep 28, 2005 3:32 amhttp://www.theregister.com/2005/09/22/m ... ing_pains/
Ok first of all as we all know, MS they roll out their patches with out saying what the flaws were. They also roll out their patches once every month so it will look as if there are not alot of things that need fixing.
Having said that though, do you guys think that popularity is detrimental to security? When Linux becomes mainstream, do you think we will have the plethora of problems that windows users have?
Granted that MS applications cannot hold under heavy work load and that Open source programs can take a lot of heavy load, that is seperate from security. In other words, stability does not mean security by default.
Yes I do understand that most web servers run on Apache and that if popularity is detrimental to security, Apache servers would have twice the downtime that MS servers have.
I am talking about the desktop arena though where most viruses have in their crosshairs locked on Besides the fact that Linux has a very tight permission scheme, and not to mention that each distro is not an exact copy cat of other distros. do you guys think that with more people using Linux, Linux will eventually have a huge increase (and succesfull) security breache problem?
Well I should also add not all distros use the same exact kernel which adds to the complexity thus making a virus much more difficult to spread.
Ok, I kinda answered my own question here but seriously though, do you see it happening, if not with the kernel it self, with applications like browsers and so forth.
Ok first of all as we all know, MS they roll out their patches with out saying what the flaws were. They also roll out their patches once every month so it will look as if there are not alot of things that need fixing.
Having said that though, do you guys think that popularity is detrimental to security? When Linux becomes mainstream, do you think we will have the plethora of problems that windows users have?
Granted that MS applications cannot hold under heavy work load and that Open source programs can take a lot of heavy load, that is seperate from security. In other words, stability does not mean security by default.
Yes I do understand that most web servers run on Apache and that if popularity is detrimental to security, Apache servers would have twice the downtime that MS servers have.
I am talking about the desktop arena though where most viruses have in their crosshairs locked on Besides the fact that Linux has a very tight permission scheme, and not to mention that each distro is not an exact copy cat of other distros. do you guys think that with more people using Linux, Linux will eventually have a huge increase (and succesfull) security breache problem?
Well I should also add not all distros use the same exact kernel which adds to the complexity thus making a virus much more difficult to spread.
Ok, I kinda answered my own question here but seriously though, do you see it happening, if not with the kernel it self, with applications like browsers and so forth.