From owner-freebsd-advocacy Mon Nov 18 10:34:52 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9103337B401 for ; Mon, 18 Nov 2002 10:34:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from thor.acuson.com (thor.acuson.com [157.226.71.79]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B49543E4A for ; Mon, 18 Nov 2002 10:34:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from DavidJohnson@Siemens.com) Received: from mvaexch02.acuson.com (mvaexch02.acuson.com [157.226.230.209]) by thor.acuson.com (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 (built Feb 21 2002)) with ESMTP id <0H5S00LDWBLN7P@thor.acuson.com> for freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG; Mon, 18 Nov 2002 10:34:36 -0800 (PST) Received: by mvaexch02.acuson.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) id ; Mon, 18 Nov 2002 10:30:13 -0800 Received: from balderdash.acuson.com (dhcp-46-132.acuson.com [157.226.46.132]) by mvaexch01.acuson.com with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2653.13) id V00LMQQ2; Mon, 18 Nov 2002 10:32:15 -0800 Content-return: allowed Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2002 10:34:30 -0800 From: Johnson David Subject: The worst security problems? To: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Message-id: <200211181034.30828.DavidJohnson@Siemens.com> Organization: Siemens Medical Systems MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT User-Agent: KMail/1.4.3 Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Here's a story about how a recent report on security vulnerabilities was skewed in Microsoft's favor. "In my opinion, the result was misleading in that many readers and editors would have seen this as an FBI certification of the relative equality of security problems between systems running Microsoft Windows and those running Unix." http://www.linuxworld.com/site-stories/2002/1111.fbi.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message