[LUAU] FYA: Suicidal linux

[Jim Thompson]

http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-13/dc13-speakers.html  (Search for  
Potter.)

> [...] No, not the standard issue "OpenBSD is uber secure, Windows  
> sucks" discussion. Rather, I've been focusing on the long term  
> impact of each of these operating systems on the security of  
> enterprise networks and the Internet as a whole. Any reasonable  
> tech geek can be trained to lock down a host. Give them a checklist  
> and some procedures and lock it down and *boom* a secure host.  
> However, while that host may be secure today, what are the  
> differences in long term security between the major operating systems.
>
> As it turns out, a lot of the long term security issues revolve  
> around the development method used to develop the OS. Windows is  
> designed as one big systems, and to some extent the BSD's are as  
> well. But Linux... Linux is designed with duct tape in mind. Linux  
> distros are held together with spit and tape, and the ramifications  
> on security are dire. I've been gathering data from mail lists,  
> looking at code, and talking to people running big systems in an  
> attempt to figure out how bad things really are. I'm sure many of  
> you will find this talk inflammatory, and that's a good thing.  
> "Knowing is half the battle."... even if you don't want to hear it.