Re: Linux is KING - Couldn't be hacked - Mac, Vista went down in flames

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On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 5:35 PM, Manuel Aróstegui <manuel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>  El sáb, 29-03-2008 a las 12:19 -0600, Arthur Pemberton escribió:
>
> > So you're saying a concentrated effort to hack a single machine (only
>  > one with Linux) is an easier test than machines randomly on the
>  > internet operated by noobs who barely know how to change advanced
>  > settings? The arguement is always made that noobs stick with the
>  > defaults, most distro defaults are pretty secure.
>
>  I'm saying the opposite.
>  It's great they couldn't hack it, but as you say there're loads of
>  machines operated by noobs, so the fact of not being able to hack that
>  machine in the contest doesn't mean that the noobs can feel safer
>  because they run a Linux distro in their servers.


Ah. Then we can agree. Frankly, I blame Microsoft and all the geeks
who seem to feel for being geeks and want to dumb everything down.

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