I was looking over the iSchool website: there’s a lot of interesting work going on over there.
But then I discovered they have their mailing lists open for public access and made the mistake of reading some of them. there was some discussion of the Slammer worm and how the MSFT monoculture perpetuates it. The IT director for the iSchool responded thusly:
One report I read claimed that last year there were more security incidents associated with “open source” software such as Linux and MySQL than even in Microsoft software. I have no idea is that is true or not, but the point is that there are security incidents and bugs associated with all software.
If it may not be true, why repeat it? This is how people respond when their version of the truth comes under fire.
On a related note, I was looking at their documentation for how to access their VPN, and they have instructions for all the popular operating systems. The OS with the least steps is — wait for it — OS X, but I noted they got progressively more complex with each version, from WIN98 to XP. This is progress??