Submission + - Linux v. Windows Security, Part Deux
Richard Ford writes: "A few years ago, Herbert Thompson (see: http://www.peoplesecurity.com/) and I gave a presentation at RSA in San Francisco regarding a study of the relative security of Windows and Linux (see http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/02/17/1616232&from=rss for the last discussion here). I'm giving a similar talk this year with Jeff Jones (Wednesday April 9th, session HT2-202), of Microsoft (see: http://blogs.technet.com/security/). Once again, I'm trying to represent the Linux side of things.
As a few Slashdotters wanted to tar and feather me last time, I thought it might be interesting to try and gather the very best comments here *before* the talk and I'll do my best to represent them on a slide or two at RSA. I'll be around all this week and next, and will try to respond to every single point made. Once we're done, I'll put the best arguments I can together on a "Slashdot" slide :)
So, here's my question to the community: what are the best arguments regarding the relative security of Windows in comparison to Linux? Is the question even meaningful? If you were going to speak on the difference between Windows and Linux from a security perspective, what would you say?"