On Wed, Nov 8, 2017 at 12:02 AM, Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com> wrote: > Dale wrote: >> Howdy, >> >> I ran up on this link. Is there any truth to it and should any of us >> Gentooers be worried about it? >> >> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/11/07/linux_usb_security_bugs/ >> >> Isn't Linux supposed to be more secure than this?? >> >> Dale >> >> :-) :-) >> > > > To reply to all that posted so far. I did see that it requires physical > access, like a lot of other things. Once a person has physical access, > there are a number of things that can go wrong. > > It does seem to be one of those things that while possible, has anyone > been able to do it in the real world and even without physical access? > Odds are, no. >
The most widely publicized example is STUXNET. There are also reports that malicious USB keys with driver-level exploits are sometimes used for industrial espionage. The key point being that in either case, someone is spending a lot of money to research and set up a plausible attack. > Still, all things considered, Linux is pretty secure. BSD is more > secure from what I've read but Linux is better than windoze. > > Dale > > :-) :-) >
