Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
> Thinking on it, there are a whole bunch of "patches" made in the UNIX world 
> to account for bad security.

  I never said that unix was perfect from the start (nor even that it is
perfect now). That wasn't my point.

  My point was that the *approach* at OS design was different from the
start, and this caused it to naturally grow into a safer environment.
When the internet got immensely popular, unixes were already mostly safe
(give or take some exploitable bugs), while Windows was completely open
to all kinds of attacks. And this was not solely because unix has existed
longer. It's a question of fundamental design.

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                                                          - Warp

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