@Tom6 - a house in the country can have less security than one in the city and not get burgled, which is great as long as it stays in the country.
Once the city reaches your house, you have to catch up fast, and that's the problem. Windows developers may try harder at security yet appear to fail more often under the heavier attack load; what happens when the same load reaches folks who haven't started to work as hard?
Apple's hit this already, within a month of exposing Safari to Windows, and are likely to hit this as they emerge as a major smartphone platform.
Linux is a more fragmented surface, which helps. But the UNIX roots are not always as savvy as you'd expect, e.g. smtp being open to spam unless band-aided, or the inability to always see what type a file is.
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