Re: [foxboro] Open vs. proprietary technologies, was: Foxboro I/A OPC
- From: "Sieling, Marcel" <Marcel.Sieling@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "'foxboro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'" <foxboro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 12 Mar 2006 08:20:23 -0500
Andreas,
you wrote:
> The number of attacks depend on the interest of people of doing that.
That's true and it's not contradicting to what I said. If knowledge is low
and numbers of installations is low as a consequence interest for attackers
is low because their exploits can only be used on a small number of systems
and not "everywhere". To come back to our topic: It's not very attractive
for hackers to try to attack FoxView/FoxDraw. But it is attractive to
develop exploits for the MS Internet Explorer.
Best regards -
Marcel Sieling
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Invensys Systems GmbH
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> [mailto:foxboro-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Weiss, Andreas
> Sent: Friday, March 10, 2006 12:48 PM
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> Subject: Re: [foxboro] Open vs. proprietary technologies,
> was: Foxboro I/A OPC
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>
> > All connectivity has always pro's=20
> > and con's which
> > need to be carefully weighted against each other. Proprietary=20
> >technologies may have some disadvantages to customers like e.g.
> >single=20 source for supply,
> > but it's by the nature of the thing more unlikely that there=20
> > exploits for
> > bugs existing and the risk of being compromised by an attack=20
> > is much lower,
> > if not near zero.
> >=20
>
> Hi Marcel,
>
> your arguments seems to be right but there are not.
>
> The number of attacks depend not only to the knowledge about
> the system. Otherwise would it mean that Linux systems has to
> be the number one of hacked systems because their source code
> is free available. Windows systems are on top of the list of
> hacked systems and their source code is not public free
> available. OK the windows API is free available.
>
> The number of attacks depend on the interest of people of doing that.
>
> Why do people attacking other machines or systems?
> - money
> - "honor" driven by a competition between hackers
> - frustrated employes
> - ...
>
> Andreas=20
>
>
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