Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 19th Sep 2005 12:32 UTC, submitted by vinref
"The growing popularity of open-source browsers and software may be responsible for the increasing gap between the exposure of a vulnerability and the provision of patch to fix it, security software vendor Symantec has said."
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2005-06-29
The permission system in place in Linux has always been one of my favorite security features. With root exploits it is possible to get around that with difficulty, but at least it stops your average users from running e-mail attachments with just one click, and it can be used to stop most people from accessing something or doing something you don't want them to.
You can say that Linux is more secure because the users know more, but it most certainly also has something to do with the extra features that accomodate that knowhow very nicely.