The more functionality you have, the more likelihood there is for a security vulnerability, and Windows NT just keeps building more and more functionality in there.
The fact is, you can get lost in the statistics, and I think a lot of people will be surprised by the Linux vulnerability numbers. But it's impossible to write perfectly secure software that's also functional.
These are not your average hackers. They're highly skilled people who try to find holes in commercial software.
When you buy their product, you have to register with it. They make you register with it in order to use the product .... They should be responsible for when there's a security-related problem for e-mailing everybody that registered that product and let them know.
I'm not going to say Macintosh is as inherently buggy as Windows was about five years ago. But the holiday is over.
With free e-mail, the more accesses there are, the more money they potentially make from advertising sales, so they don't put that much thought into the design of the system for security.
To a large extent, this could be a failure with open source.
To a hacker, you're just an IP address. You get hit because you let yourself be an easy mark.
This one, from a technical standpoint, isn't dangerous in and of itself. What makes it dangerous is that it can spread very, very rapidly and fill up mail servers, causing mail servers around the world to crash.
I used to say there were only ... a few hundred (in the latter category). These are people who like to play with software and figure out how to find exploits into the software. That requires lots of good technical talent and knowing how to do software testing.
