[153816] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: EBAY and AMAZON
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (JC Dill)
Wed Jun 13 14:09:11 2012
Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2012 11:08:25 -0700
From: JC Dill <jcdill.lists@gmail.com>
CC: nanog@nanog.org
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On 13/06/12 5:17 AM, Astro Dog wrote:
> (Sorry for the top post. Mail client is being obnoxious.)
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> Why? The prevalence of malware for a given OS is going to, generally, be a matter of most return for least work.
> If you're writing malware to steal credit card numbers, say, you're much better served writing it for Windows than you are OSX or Linux,
Really? I'm positive that there are far more credit card numbers stored
on various flavors of *nix systems (web servers) than windows systems.
And you only have to crack one to get a plethora of credit card numbers.
If both flavors were equally easy to exploit, according to your theory
above we would see more exploits on the *nix servers. Yet server-side
exploits are seen on Windows servers far more often than *nix servers,
despite the fact that more web pages are served by *nix servers than
Windows servers.
I'm really surprised to see this "Windows is more popular, that's why
it's exploited more often" misinformation being spewed on a technical
list like NANOG. I thought people here had more clue.
jc
