Latest streak of critical vulnerabilities prove Linux was never safer than anything else

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There are a shit ton of ways to deny service to a default Windows desktop. This sort of attack is only relevant for servers, and nobody uses Windows. And those who do have way more downtime from Windows bullshit than Linux servers will have from this being exploited and patched.

The good news is it will be fixed by Thursday.

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Or just by turning off SACK or applying the patch netflix already released.

For example, look in related articles under that post
bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/bad-cert-vulnerability-can-bring-down-any-windows-server/
>DoS was disclosed to microsoft for over 90 days
>no fix so it was released publicly
Also the mistake is low hanging fruit compared to crafting some super weird SACK packets.

Tfw hackers never target servers

No one cares about OpenBSD.

(((Netflix))

uh huh

It's an operating system invented by Bill Gates.

>tcp stack
I use udp

>nobody uses Windows for servers
t. never ever even set foot on an IT department

Because no one targets it because nobody uses it.

>There are a shit ton of ways to deny service to a default Windows desktop.
If by "default Windows desktop" you mean "Windows 95 desktop", then sure.

The vulnerability is not even there in OpenBSD's TCP stack, while the TCP stack of Linux and FreeBSD had it. Saying that "nobody targets it" in this context doesn't make sense at all.

It's easier to secure a server than a machine that actually has to be touched by a dummy. Just look at Linux's security track record on phones and IoT, it's even worse than early versions of Windows.

I'm sure there are many other holes lying hidden in there just waiting to be found, if only anyone cared to look.

Which is why OpenBSD is pre-configured with sane defaults.

>Saying that "nobody targets it" in this context doesn't make sense at all.
It always makes sense in every context. Security as a product is a misguided approach to security. Products by definition can't provide you any security. Security is a process. Products are never safe or unsafe. You can take a Windows Me machine and make it safe. Study harder, young grasshopper.

No code is perfect, especially with a project this large, but OpenBSD mitigates this by implementing high code quality standards, regular code auditing and kernel hardening (even if there's a bug that got discovered, it will highly unlikely be exploitable because of the kernel hardening in place).

If your definition of sane is "nothing working by default", yeah.
A totally unplugged machine is also super safe. It's also completely useless.

I don't understand the argument you're making, either OpenBSD is affected by this vulnerability or it isn't, and it turned out that OpenBSD is not affected by this vulnerability.
>You can take a Windows ME machine and make it safe
Is this a joke? The Windows ME code hasn't been touched for decades, and it suffers from serious vulnerabilities that can't be patched through configuration.

Are you sure? because last time I checked OpenBSD comes with a webserver, a mail server, a terminal multiplexer, a package manager, an NTP client, a DHCP client, an SSH server/client, a cron server, a sound server, and many more...

Everything disabled by default and you have to jump through several hoops to enable it. Now go to bed, Theo.

Looks like you never used OpenBSD before.

>dominant server operating system
>never targeted
are you some actual kind of retarded or what

if you can hit up linux machines, you can bring down scores of websites, it's a pretty large, interesting target for attackers

Join to the 40% tranny.

>not being mentioned at all means it's not affected
that's not how it works, they probably never even bothered with an OS that nobody uses

>dominant web server
The oceans of pointless WordPress blogs don't count. The interesting targets are the Windows Server servers holding important corporate data, mission critical applications, etc.
Linux is also the most used personal computing OS, in the form of Android. But guess what? Yup, the interesting targets are still the enterprise workstations, which all run without exception - you guessed it - Windows.

>Now that it's slowly becoming more mainstream, loads of grave security holes are being uncovered.
This an exploit that can be used to attack servers. Linux has been the dominant server OS for forever you idiot.

There are no trannies here, except for the ones living rent-free in your mind.

No sane person is going to store important data on a black box that's impossible to inspect, you're free to believe whatever you want but please, stop shitting up this place with your fanboy drivel

>DoS
few people give a shit, and it'll probably be fixed by tomorrow (if it wasn't already).

BTW, how much does Microsoft pay for posting pro-Windows, anti-Linux propaganda, Ranjeet?

Linus never claimed Linux to be a secure os.

You're in for such a rude awakening. Every single business out there uses Windows Server for their mission critical stuff. Stay mad.

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>No OS is inherently safe
looks like iTrannies finally figured it out

It's the GNU OS by the GNU project, not 'Linux os'.
Use your brains, you fucking dumbfuck /v/tard.

>enterprise data center
>mission critical
lmao, also you should consider the fact that there's a new data breach every day of the week indicates that windows is an even bigger piece of shit in the server space

Nope. The super critical stuff runs on IBM mainframes, then its a toss up between Solaris (on the way out) and Red Hat, with some Windows (mostly for Exchange and AD).

is this why so many companies are having data breaches lately