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Security: Lintel vs Wintel

In the PC community "security" just means defending against attacks aimed at destroying or misusing all or part of a computer system. In that context most of the complexities associated with trying to decide whether wintel or lintel will expose you to less security risk arise from the absense of...

Tags: Wintel, Attacker, Vulnerability, Flaw, National Vulnerability Database, Petreley, Security, Paul Murphy

Blog posts 2008-03-24

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Security: Lintel vs Wintel

Security: Lintel vs WintelI guess we'll see how well the method matches realityOn first glance, this does appear to be well thought out, but there may be too many judgment calls to make it useful.RE: Security: Lintel vs WintelI've done a security project on a Unix system and worked extensively...

Tags: Mainframes, Operating systems, Servers, security, Lintel, Wintel, Microsoft Windows, mainframe, operating system

Discussion threads 2008-03-24

Yet another "Linux is less flawed" story

CNET News.com has a story that puts a tidy bow on research coming from several sources that points to Linux having fewer flaws than other operating systems. It was a reminder to me that no matter what all the researchers and scientists say, the bottom line is that your mileage will vary.  There...

Tags: Nicholas Petreley

Blog posts 2004-12-14

Windows is more secure?

If Steve Ballmer hadn't been tapped for his post at Microsoft, his talent for spinning facts and spreading FUD would have made him a natural for American politics. Microsoft, with Ballmer at the lead, is busy again trying to convince the tech world that Linux and open source leave users...

Tags: Linux, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp.

Blog posts 2004-10-27