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CCIA Report is Bad Medicine
Tim Mullen, 2003-10-13

The proposed cure for the Internet's security woes might help Microsoft competitors, but it would only make our security problems worse.

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CCIA Report is Bad Medicine 2003-10-13
Anonymous
You missed the point: for a given vulnerability, even if the "dumb user" doesn't change, you have *fewer affected machines*.
Why? Because they aren't all running the same exact platform, and aren't neccessarily vulnerable to the same exploits.
The point is that it doesn't matter what the OS is,...

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