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:Are we too naive by believing that GNU/Linux is more secure by design?
Are we too naive by believing that GNU/Linux is more secure by design?
Jul 29, 2009, 09 :02 UTC (23 Talkback[s]) (5150 reads)

(Other stories by Edmundo Carmona)

[ Thanks to Edmundo for this link. ]

"Now, there are people that say that it's just that GNU/Linux is less attractive to malware software because there are so few of us GNU/Linux users. I have always thought that this is crap but anyway....

"Now, think about the things that FLOSS developers get to do:
- Crack encrypted DVDs
- Allow for communication between Microsoft Windows hosts (with a twisted SMB protocol) and *NIX hosts before Microsoft (reluctantly... but with a lot of PR spin, as usual) released the documentation about it
- Synchronize with iTunes"

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  Talkback(s) Name  and Date
I don't think so.  Let's look at ...   No, not really   
Bruce Ediger
Jul 29, 2009, 13:21:18
 
This post will probably have me called a ...   Wait for the USERS   
M-H
Jul 29, 2009, 13:40:48
 
Users may cause their system to have pro ...   Re: Wait for the USERS   
Fred Williams
Jul 29, 2009, 14:44:46
 
KDE, GNOME and the like will be the undo ...   "Rich Desktop Environments" will do in Linux secur   
David F. Skoll
Jul 29, 2009, 14:59:43
 
Yup, it is the users fault that they don ...   Blame the users   
Don Whitbeck
Jul 29, 2009, 15:02:00
 
I will have to admit that the biggest se ...   Re: Wait for the USERS   
Padma
Jul 29, 2009, 15:10:15
 
Okay, I fully concede to the point that  ...   Re: Re: Wait for the USERS   
M-H
Jul 29, 2009, 16:25:34
 
1.  Any system including Linux will have ...   Two things about Stupid Users and Linux   
DannyB
Jul 29, 2009, 17:08:56
 
Every example that this article uses ref ...   Naive Linux Users   
Paul
Jul 29, 2009, 19:29:58
 
Extending your analogy in a different wa ...   Re: Re: Wait for the USERS   
GreyGeek
Jul 29, 2009, 20:03:24
 
 When the plague of malware for Linux be ...   WOW, the MS fanbois are out in force!   
GreyGeek
Jul 29, 2009, 21:03:28
 
At what point will Ubuntu change the def ...   Re: Re: Re: Wait for the USERS   
Bernard Swiss
Jul 29, 2009, 21:33:39
 
GreyGreek wrote: The main reason is that ...   Executable e-mail   
David F. Skoll
Jul 29, 2009, 21:39:00
 
Yes, David, I did think about the putati ...   Re: Executable e-mail   
GreyGeek
Jul 29, 2009, 23:05:54
 
However, your implication that KDE and G ...   Re: executable e-mail   
David F. Skoll
Jul 30, 2009, 00:47:51
 
Oh, and to GreyGreek, from the LWN artic ...   The GNOME and KDE "fix"   
David F. Skoll
Jul 30, 2009, 00:59:25
 
I think you overestimate the amount of s ...   Re: Re: executable e-mail   
Grishnakh
Jul 30, 2009, 01:00:00
 
Grishnakh writes:This is a rather ridicu ...   Re: executable e-mail   
David F. Skoll
Jul 30, 2009, 02:21:01
 
> Take the Conficker Virus(Worm). Is it  ...   Re: Wait for the USERS   
blackhole
Jul 30, 2009, 09:33:08
 
> At what point will Ubuntu change the d ...   Re: Re: Re: Re: Wait for the USERS   
blackhole
Jul 30, 2009, 09:51:29
 
Any operating system used by the compute ...   Linux Malware   
Tony OBryan
Jul 30, 2009, 13:07:42
 
On the Conficker you may be right, howev ...   Re: Blackhole's Re: Wait for the USERS   
M-H
Jul 30, 2009, 15:14:49
 
> And you are right that I meant they wo ...   Re: Re: Blackhole's Re: Wait for the USERS   
blackhole
Jul 31, 2009, 11:36:07
 
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