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| Subject: | Re: [Full-disclosure] Linux big bang theory.... |
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| Date: | Thu, 10 May 2007 15:04:07 -0400 |
On Thu, 10 May 2007 13:24:24 EDT, "J. Oquendo" said:
If you were an attacker what would you rather have? 10k Linux machines 10k Windows machines
Depends on the goals. A Linux box is probably easier to use remotely. However, your presence on the Windows box is far less likely to be noticed. And if I was doing a targeted attack on an organization, I'd probably trade 10K of *any* machine out on the open Internet for that old VMS machine in the target's DMZ....
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