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Comment Security Through Obscurity Doesn't Appear to Work (Score 1) 207

Why, if Open Source is so much more insecure, is the "closed source" Microsoft so heavily represented in defacements?

http://www.attrition.org/mirror/attrition/os.html

Since we began collecting OS data, MS has clearly led, representing almost 60% of all defacements, and in recent months, represents closer to 70% of all defacements.

While I won't make extravagant claims of security for Linux or other Open Source OS's (administrators must learn to lock down any "out of the box" system), at least the fantastic counter claims of security through obscurity don't appear to be backed up in the real world.


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