The use of Linux in systems requiring high levels of security has been a frequent topic of controversy. Supporters have claimed that Linux's open source approach improves security due to exposure to an enormous, worldwide community of developers and users.
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lozz
14 years 26 weeks 1 day 10 hours ago
Pure humbug!
This condemnation with very faint praise could have been written by M$, itself, considering the careful cherry picking of dubious information calculated to show GNU/Linux in a bad security light.
The unidentified "detractors" of GNU/Linux security would doubtlessly be M$ Corporation who are rarely capable of telling the truth about anything.
Quoting the opinions of the DHS overlooks the fact that these idiots need to use both hands to find their own bums.
When they quote scarey sounding statements of "Linux" developer, Greg Kroah-Hartman, they are careful not to point out that he is employed by Novell, who sold GNU/Linux down the river to M$.
This embedded.com sounds as unbiased as another zdnet.