A Picture is Worth...
Richard Stiennon has two wonderful pictures over on his blog about Why Windows is less secure than Linux
The two pictures demonstrate the system calls needed for the web server to serve a single static html page, with a single picture. (Apache on Linux, IIS on Windows).
The Windows map gives me the willies.
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It would be nice to see some text on those graphs because I completely doubt that apache calls that many unique syscalls to serve a single page. In fact I bet it would be hard to think of that many syscalls that could be used to serve a page. The pretty pictures are completely worthless without some real sense of what they really are.
Jayce^: love it! I saw the images yesterday from Reddit, and couldn't believe my eyes! An people back that operating system as a viable, secure os.
Byron: I would believe Apache makes that number of system calls. However, I am curious about the operating system it was running on, the version of Apache, and what modules were loaded. More detail about the environment would be very helpful for something of this nature.
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