“Microsoft has been waiting for security researchers to say that its Windows operating system has a lower total cost of ownership. One finally has, but that’s not good news,” Robert Lemos reports for CNET News. “On Friday, David Aitel, a noted security professional and managing director of vulnerability assessment firm Immunity, published a paper stating that ‘owning’ a computer–hacker-speak for compromising a system–is easier if the target computer runs Windows. While couched in puns and jokes, the paper takes a serious stance on the security of Windows compared with modern Linux, Aitel said. ‘We are having some fun with it, but the underlying data and conclusions are real,’ he said.”
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