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Linux Wins The Security Showdown! Now What? |
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Source: Information Week - Posted by Eckie Silapaswang
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So now that Ubuntu Linux was "last man standing" in the PWN to OWN contest at CanSecWest, does this mean open source has it all over the competition when it comes to security? It can, and it ought to -- but it's not a guarantee. And we need to not think it is.
The writer brings up several valid points in this article - even though the Linux computer outlasted the Apple and Windows machines, any successful exploitation of the machine resulted in true "spoils of war" - they got to keep the laptop! Can the "success" of Linux at CanSecWest be a result of "security through obscurity" and the fact that you could win a shiny new MacBook Air through cracking it?
Read this full article at Information Week
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