The Flying Spaghetti Monster has proved, once and for all, that Windows is less secure than Linux.

Richard Stiennon provided the proof to us on Friday, when he revealed that the Flying Spaghetti Monster controls the inner workings of computers. This is something that most people who program the blasted things could have told you already; after all, there’s a reason they call it spaghetti code.

The general theory is this: The less spaghetti in your computer, the more secure you can make it.

And, as the pictures show, there’s a lot more spaghetti in Windows.

Many millions of words have been written and said on this topic. I have a couple of pictures. The basic argument goes like this. In its long evolution, Windows has grown so complicated that it is harder to secure. Well these images make the point very well. Both images are a complete map of the system calls that occur when a web server serves up a single page of html with a single picture. The same page and picture. A system call is an opportunity to address memory. A hacker investigates each memory access to see if it is vulnerable to a buffer overflow attack. The developer must do QA on each of these entry points. The more system calls, the greater potential for vulnerability, the more effort needed to create secure applications. — Threat Chaos

I can’t show you the pictures here because CNet’s legal department would jump all over my ass again, but you can click through to view them for yourself.