David Koski wrote:

> I'm not sure what you mean but FYI, Linux is modeled after Unix
> which has been around a lot longer than Windows.

Hi David,

Thanks for your comments. Yes, definitely, I'm aware of this fact. What I
meant to convey was a mindset: How can one write defensive code or secure
code if one does not know what they are defending against? Besides the money
factor, there's the possibility that people just didn't anticipate some of
these security problems. It appears to be an evolutionary process, and there
has been a lot of emphasis on improvement in security recently for obvious
reasons.

Thanks again,

Ken Pergola

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