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title: Get These Facts 2 (via Schneier)
date: 2005-01-07T19:18:00Z
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In the second of my occasional series of pieces of evidence that support the idea that Linux, and its open source brethren, do not suck.

According to The [Honeynet Project](http://www.honeynet.org/)‘s just-published Know Your Enemy report, time to breach in Linux environments is increasing. That is, the time it takes for a deployed Linux server to be compromised is getting longer – up into the three month territory for an _unpatched_ server.

This survey, based on using honpeypot servers and monitoring actual behaviour in the wild, is an interestin pushback to recent studies published on Microsoft’s [Get The Facts](http://www.honeynet.org/papers/trends/life-linux.pdf) site.