| Post ID |
Timestamp |
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User |
| 538391 |
2007-04-05 04:39:00 |
says Geoff, here (pcworld.co.nz) |
Chris Keall (10417) |
| 538392 |
2007-04-05 05:20:00 |
So why is Vista such a target for hackers when it only has about 3% market share? I thought hackers were only interested in operating systems which have over 90% market share such as XP? |
winmacguy (3367) |
| 538393 |
2007-04-05 05:22:00 |
New toys I guess :) |
trinsic (6945) |
| 538394 |
2007-04-05 05:26:00 |
Maybe because they know it will be easy to break. The OS is secure. That's "proven by assertion". Microsoft say it is secure, so it must be. Lewis Carroll made one of his characters say: "What I tell you three times is true". |
Graham L (2) |
| 538395 |
2007-04-05 05:27:00 |
Maybe because they know it will be easy to break. The OS's security is "proven by assertion". Microsoft say it is secure, so it must be. Lewis Carroll made one of his characters say: "What I tell you three times is true". |
Graham L (2) |
| 538396 |
2007-04-05 05:28:00 |
But people have always said that hackers won't attack systems with small market share because it is not worth it ... sounds like a load of bollocks to me. |
winmacguy (3367) |
| 538397 |
2007-04-05 06:10:00 |
But people have always said that hackers won't attack systems with small market share because it is not worth it ... sounds like a load of bollocks to me.
Vista doesn't have a large market share *yet*. Now that most new PCs are coming with Vista, it won't take long for the market share to go up. Sounds worthwhile to me: start finding holes, so that unpatched systems can be attacked in the future. |
somebody (208) |
| 538398 |
2007-04-05 06:15:00 |
Correct somebody, Vista has just under 3% market share some 3 months after its release. It has also been compromised more than once in the same period. FWIW I wasn't pointing out a "for" or "against" in terms of the market share numbers, merely stating them as they are. Doesn't say much for the security of the OS does it. |
winmacguy (3367) |
| 538399 |
2007-04-05 13:01:00 |
Hackers are mostly Kiddies. They like new things. Being kiddies, they have short attention spans. Hence, they leave older OS's alone ...98SE still lives! ...For me anyway ... :thumbs: |
DUNK (1527) |
| 538400 |
2007-04-05 13:09:00 |
Actually the majority of hackers these days are high organised eastern European gangs that hack for cash to set up large PC botnets that create all of the phishing scams that collect hundreds of millions of dollars from unsuspecting PC users. Personally I don't think "new" has anything to do with it, more like a case of too many flaws in the coding. |
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