Re: WHat is more secure by default?

On 24 Mar 2006 11:57:44 -0800, as400 wrote:

OMG!!!! You got to be kidding me...

I am just asking IF which OS is more secure OUT-OF -THE-BOX...WITHOUT
any manual configuring in general....
Out of the box with no configuration at all, they are both exactly as
secure as each other. They both consist of installation media.
At the point when you start an install they start to become different and
at that point the answer depends on which answers you give during the
install.



Let me show you an example:

Take Windows and LINUX...Out of the box...Windows would be less
secure..right?????

NOPE Exactly the same before you start the install.

LINUX is more secure than Windows, but that too... has some security
issues but not as greatly as much as Windows is...Right?

Prove your assertion or take it away.

So I would be asking the same question between FreeBSD and Solaris....

Which (for the millionth time)...Which would be generally more secure
when installing with no security tweaks??

How hard can this question be???
Either very easy or impossible to answer accuratly without doing a very
detailed code audit on both of the default installs.

IT DEPENDS.

I'm not aware of anyone paying for such an audit on either of these
operating systems.
Adam

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