It is only the primitive hacker, who attacks wide-open systems. I agree, that many *nix boxes are wide open, but that's only because it provides the administrator tools that are not available with NT or Win2K. It's like my drawer in my desk: There's no lock!!
There are lots of wide-open things in Windows 2000 - people just don't bother to publish them, since they don't get rewarded for it, but they are treated as hackers. In the Linux world, they get rewarded by having their name put in various serious magazines and are treated as somebody who really knows Linux internals.
One of my friends works in a highly respected computer security agency as professional hacker, and there are so many obvious security breaks in Windows NT and Windows 2000, that are not documented, because "everybody" it knows already.
The real issue here is: How good are the administrators.
As one guy wrote once: It is extremely easy to explain to a Unix guy, what Microsoft made, because all the technology is known. But it is pretty difficult to explain to a Microsoft guy, what Unix is about, because it requires understanding many of those technical issues, that isn't explained in the Microsoft world. |
