Study Recommends Mac OS X as Safest OS 370
rocketjam writes "The British security firm mi2g has concluded a comprehensive 12-month study to identify the safest 24/7 computing environment. In the end, the open source BSD and Mac OS X came out on top with the fewest security breaches against permanently connected machines worldwide in homes, small businesses, large enterprises and governments. The study found Linux to be the most breached environment 'in terms of manual hacker attacks overall and accounts for 65.64% of all breaches recorded'. Windows was the most breached environment in government computing and led Linux, BSD and Mac OS X by far in economic damage caused by breaches." We mentioned their previous study too. As before, the study ignores the thousands of automatically-spreading viruses for Windows.
LOL (Score:-1, Funny)
less users = less exploits (Score:4, Funny)
security through obscurity. Fewer AmigaOS exploits these days too.
-/flamebait-
(i'm joking.. just couldn't resist.)
EROS is the most safe! (Score:2, Funny)
It is the most secure because:
Interesting corollary... (Score:5, Funny)
Just like the millions of clueless Windows users.
What about.... (Score:2, Funny)
Security through Obscurity (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Isn't it the least used? (Score:3, Funny)
Microsoft Longhorn Declared Saftest OS Ever (Score:3, Funny)
Any thinking computer professional will see that Microsoft's Longhorn Operating System has had 0 malicious security breaches over the past year. It is obscene to think that anyone with half a mind would not switch to such a secure platform. Our masterfully elaborate computer models lead us to undoubtably confirm that Microsoft's Longhorn Operating System will be the most secure Operating System until it is released, sometime in the later part of the great year 2015. At that time we believe it will experience a downward trend and will be replaced by BSD as the most securest of all Operatinginus Systamicuses around. This indisputable change will be due in large part to the unquestionable and horrifying death of the BSD platform. Indubitably.
Re:The manual Linux breeches are significant thoug (Score:3, Funny)
NooB (Score:5, Funny)
Bah. Your manual Linux breeches are no match for my automated OS X pantaloons.
And in other news ... (Score:5, Funny)
And in other news, a new auto-safety study by the National Traffic Safety Commission has shown that SUVs are no more dangerous to drive than other types of cars. This conclusion was reached by ignoring roll-over accidents, which are due to the SUV's design, and are thus not caused by the driver.
Re:Before people go nuts... (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Before people go nuts... (Score:4, Funny)
enough! (Score:4, Funny)
And here's the twist, the fanclubs are also the hackers, they not only have to try and own the other teams boxes, they have to defend their box!
Once and for all, let's see who's got the OS and the skillz!