[ Thanks to Locutus
for this link. ]
“I seem to be pushing a few buttons recently. My last
article incensed one anonimati so much that they were moved to
actually send me a private email about it. Whether it is a male or
female I don’t know and they must have been pretty obsessive to
have tracked down my email to send this. Here are a few toned down
excerpts from that letter. I would be interested in seeing what you
think. In the calm logical manner that us Linux advocates are
renowned for 🙂“It always grates me when the discussion gets down to how rotten
Windows is because of all the viruses etc. when it seems obvious,
at least to Windows users, that most of that crap is written by
Linux devotees. It seems hard to deny how obvious that is and a
great part of the reason that Linux doesn’t suffer from it is
because these guys are not going to ‘shit in their own back
yard’.“This seems to be the classical stereotype of Linux advocates.
Basically what is being said here is that due to the hatred of
windows Linux people are purposely writing malware targeted at
windows to further fuel hatred against windows. I don’t know about
you but if I were writing malware against any operating system I
would use that operating system to write that malware. Why? Simply
because it would be easier to use the libraries you are trying to
exploit. From what I understand about exploits they rely on causing
part of a program to crash and open up a memory hole which can be
filled with exploitable code. How easy is that to do from a
different operating system?”