"John Rumm" wrote in message
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nightjar nightjar@ wrote:

However, it is their relative obscurity that protects them much better
than
their relative security. If there were serious money to be made from
breaking them, as there is with MS products, it is unlikely that they
would
fare a great deal better.

Not sure that adds up... The large installed base of MS products will
make them an attractive target, but I don't think you can cite that as
the only reason for their apparent lack of security. MS has only
recently jumped on the security bandwagon, prior to that they paid it
little attention at all, preferring to concentrate on adding features.

Remember that MS do not dominate in the server space. One of the most
common OSs about must be IOS from Cisco. As deployed in critical
internet routers and gateways the world over. Highly attractive (and
profitable) target for the black hat community,

How is it attractive ? They might bring down the Internet but where's the
profit line ?
In fact the only way to make money from it would be to e-mail a version to
Cisco and ask for $n,000 or it gets released. For all we know this happens
aleady.