Re: Microsoft announce most secure OS on the planet

[der Mouse <mouse () rodents-montreal org>]

> Actually, the attacks will be targeted at the product that has the
> highest product of (weakness)*(profit per break).

Not quite: the highest *perceived* product, and with the additional
note that "profit" is not necessarily purely monetary.

> RSTS/E won't be attacked much, even though it's pretty weak, because
> there's no money to be made at it.

...and little to no profit of any other kind (egoboo, demonstration of
ability, etc - there are probably a few still doing it just for the
challenge, even).

I know someone who until recently (~1yr ago?) was running Windows 3.1.
For all its lack of inherent security, it was substantially stronger
against today's carpet-bombed attacks than lots of more modern stuff,
simply because most malware wouldn't run on it at all.

> Financial services will be targets, even though they're *hopefully*
> tough targets, because the profit side is big.

Tough?  When "all" of them run Windows on their internal LANs??
Whenever I hear of a bank or government site being hit with the latest
"virus", I think "xkcd #463"....

> And then in the middle, somebody is getting rich hitting consumer
> systems in the millions at $5-$10 average a pop...

Yeah.  Ethics are so *damn* inconvenient....

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