BBC Team Exposes...its Windows-centricity (Again)

[ Thanks to Jimbo and the Jet Set for this link. ]

"And yet, I'd be willing to bet that none of those 22,000 machines ran GNU/Linux or Mac OS. Because the fact is, that the vast majority of machines on botnets are running Windows, and that this is yet another problem caused by the Microsoft monoculture.

"But nothing of this is mentioned in the BBC piece. Instead, it is presented as if botnets were some inevitable part of computing life -- something you might get, just as you might catch a cold, because, hey, these things happen."

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