[daeros]

I take the opposite view, look no further than all the security holes in Microsoft Windows compared to Linux which is more difficult to actually maliciously hack that windows.

Security by obscurity has failed every time it's been attempted. every. time.

[PrimeMcFly]

> I take the opposite view, look no further than all the security holes in Microsoft Windows compared to Linux which is more difficult to actually maliciously hack that windows.

Honestly this is a bad example, given the Linux kernel maintainers shitty attitude towards security bugs, and that Windows these days does have a good security design and has had since Vista/7.

[jtriangle]

Not to mention exploits for actively maintained open source projects don't last very long, and patches tend to work the first time.