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Security is not obscurity. Popularity is not the only reason MS Windows is so poorly secured in general use. Maybe.

September 7th, 2010
By Chad Perrin

One idea in particular keeps coming up in discussions amongst IT professionals and software partisans: that the popularity of a piece of software is inversely correlated with its security. The assumption is that greater popularity of a piece of software makes it a more tempting target, and being a more tempting target makes it less secure.

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