I think the two important statements which I think almost everyone would agree with are:
1 - against a resourceful enough opponent a networked OS being used by a human is (probably) never secure.
2 - the biggest insecurity in any OS is the person running it
3 - a knowledgeable person can use / secure any OS to a degree that will avoid 99.99% of the vulnerabilities (excepting point 1)
I like Linux, I tend to think that when I want to increase security on a Linux system the tools are there and work. That said I'm sure that same thing can be said for OSX and Windows.
I do tend suspect that the best of the bunch - out of the box, naive user - is probably IOS. Linux is probably a close second because that naive user will find it harder to create problems and it's just a smaller target because of smaller installed base (and there's a little more heterogeneity among the distributions)
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I think the two important statements which I think almost everyone would agree with are:
1 - against a resourceful enough opponent a networked OS being used by a human is (probably) never secure.
2 - the biggest insecurity in any OS is the person running it
3 - a knowledgeable person can use / secure any OS to a degree that will avoid 99.99% of the vulnerabilities (excepting point 1)
I like Linux, I tend to think that when I want to increase security on a Linux system the tools are there and work. That said I'm sure that same thing can be said for OSX and Windows.
I do tend suspect that the best of the bunch - out of the box, naive user - is probably IOS. Linux is probably a close second because that naive user will find it harder to create problems and it's just a smaller target because of smaller installed base (and there's a little more heterogeneity among the distributions)