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Re:German Government Warns Key Entities Not To Use Windows 8... by jister on Thursday August 22, 2013 @08:51AM (#6256770)
if hackers wants to hack your server it doesn't matter what OS your using.
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Re:German Government Warns Key Entities Not To Use Windows 8... by rbanffy on Thursday August 22, 2013 @09:09AM (#6256847)
True. But you don't have to provide a nice backdoor for them to use, do you?

Every system has a set of exploitable vulnerabilities. Each of those vulnerabilities is known by a set of parties other than you. With Windows you can be sure those sets have at least one element each.

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