From owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Oct 29 23:23:49 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D497916A418 for ; Mon, 29 Oct 2007 23:23:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wisco.disco@gmail.com) Received: from wr-out-0506.google.com (wr-out-0506.google.com [64.233.184.237]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A0FBC13C4A7 for ; Mon, 29 Oct 2007 23:23:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wisco.disco@gmail.com) Received: by wr-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id 70so1085901wra for ; Mon, 29 Oct 2007 16:23:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.90.91.14 with SMTP id o14mr4620458agb.1193667263583; Mon, 29 Oct 2007 07:14:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.90.96.18 with HTTP; Mon, 29 Oct 2007 07:14:23 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2007 09:14:23 -0500 From: "Doug Poland" To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Subject: Independent security analysis of operating systems/applications X-BeenThere: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: doug@polands.org List-Id: FreeBSD Evangelism List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2007 23:23:49 -0000 Hello, Recently some friends of mine have started to cite "studies" that assert Unix/Linux operating systems are now the most frequently attacked platforms. My friends are not without bias, they work for a training firm that almost exclusively sells training for Microsoft-based platforms/applications. Now my friends cannot cite the actual studies, and I am highly skeptical of their claims. After about an hour of goggling, I could find nothing on the web to support such claims. However, my friends are not liars, and I believe they have information from "somewhere". Is anyone aware of the existence of studies of this nature? I would like to examine these data in an attempt to uncover bias or other obfuscation that may be present. Conversely, if someone has pointers to independent security analysis of Operating Systems/Applications that does not clearly advocate one platform over the other, I'd like to know about that as well. -- Regards, Doug