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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 2003-10-16
Anonymous
50% < 90%

Which means that no single exploit could bring down more than 50% of all computers, where a single Windows exploit now can bring down 90%.

But to get real diversity, you need to get the biggest market share under 10% - and get the number of common OS up to 15 or so.

Which is why, ...

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