[zx2dragon]

LOL! MS and security.

[null and void]

LOL! MS and security.

Darn! Beat me to it!!!

Any bets on how long before the holes show?

Any other bets on how many years before the patches are announced?

[hchutch]

One thing to keep in mind. One reason that there may be so may security "fixes" in Microsoft's operating system is the fact that Microsoft is much more widely used than any other system.

Keep in mind, the more versions of attacks you see, eventually, people will run out of tricks they can use. OTOH, I am worried about the possiblity that DOD may shift to open source. Releasing the source code of modifications you may have made to Linux (as an example) is something that strikes me as defeating the purpose of security, particularly if you were to release the source code for a security or anti-virus program.