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Date: Thu, 10 May 2007 15:04:07 -0400
From: Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu
To: "J. Oquendo" <sil@...iltrated.net>
Cc: full-disclosure <full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk>,
	KJKHyperion <hackbunny@...tpj.org>
Subject: Re: Linux big bang theory....

On Thu, 10 May 2007 13:24:24 EDT, "J. Oquendo" said:

> If you were an attacker what would you rather have?
> 
> 10k Linux machines
> 10k Windows machines

Depends on the goals.  A Linux box is probably easier to use remotely.
However, your presence on the Windows box is far less likely to be noticed.

And if I was doing a targeted attack on an organization, I'd probably trade
10K of *any* machine out on the open Internet for that old VMS machine in
the target's DMZ....

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