https://spinsafe.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/SS-Logo.svg00SecureTechhttps://spinsafe.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/SS-Logo.svgSecureTech2011-01-13 18:56:412011-01-13 18:56:41How come microsoft has a poor record with computer security?
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savagenarce says:
It’s not that they’re any worse than others, it’s just that they’re so universal that they make an easy target. Let’s face it, if you wanted to write a trojan, you’d get a lot more results by writing it for Microsoft than for Linux. So most hackers aim at Microsoft weaknesses.
Mike M says:
They didn’t realize security would even be an issue until it was far too late; Windows wasn’t designed from the ground up to be secure, the way UNIX-based operating systems were. (The latter were often developed collaboratively over long distances, so they effectively “grew up” in a much more dangerous “neigbourhood”.) They’ve not only never quite caught up since then, they’ve actually turned it into a way to make more money, with a huge anti-malware industry dedicated to duct-taping over Windows’ fundamental flaws, and Microsoft themselves using “sanctioned” spyware, adware and the like to wring more money from its customers. It’s hard to improve your security image when you’re contributing to security problems that you’re simultaneously pretending don’t exist.
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It’s not that they’re any worse than others, it’s just that they’re so universal that they make an easy target. Let’s face it, if you wanted to write a trojan, you’d get a lot more results by writing it for Microsoft than for Linux. So most hackers aim at Microsoft weaknesses.
They didn’t realize security would even be an issue until it was far too late; Windows wasn’t designed from the ground up to be secure, the way UNIX-based operating systems were. (The latter were often developed collaboratively over long distances, so they effectively “grew up” in a much more dangerous “neigbourhood”.) They’ve not only never quite caught up since then, they’ve actually turned it into a way to make more money, with a huge anti-malware industry dedicated to duct-taping over Windows’ fundamental flaws, and Microsoft themselves using “sanctioned” spyware, adware and the like to wring more money from its customers. It’s hard to improve your security image when you’re contributing to security problems that you’re simultaneously pretending don’t exist.