"Huge" wrote in message
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"nightjar" writes:

"Tony Hogarty" wrote in message
newsan.2004.12.16.07.35.47.483354@tjhpropertyga rbage.co.uk...
On Thu, 16 Dec 2004 06:41:45 +0000, Mike wrote:

I'm sure every other product mentioned here has ten times as many
security
holes. But with so many fewer users, and those that do often have
other
security measures in place, it is not worth the idiots who write these
viruses and so on handling them.

No this isn't the case at all. There are alternative OS's around that
were designed from the ground up to be secure and consequently the
programs written for them are so much more secure.

However, it is their relative obscurity that protects them much better
than
their relative security.

Untrue. Windows has fundamental problems, both in design and
implementation,
with separation of user space from system space.


Jave has that separation built in yet it was breached.