On Sat, 2012-07-14 at 02:34 -0400, Joshua Judson Rosen wrote: > "Michael ODonnell" <michael.odonn...@comcast.net> writes: > > > > Those who use terms like "immune" or "virus-proof" when > > discussing Linux do everybody a disservice since neither > > is true. We are, for now, statistically less likely to be > > compromised because there aren't as many of us and because > > privilege separation has been more the custom with us than > > with Windows users. Those factors are changing, though... > > I guess it's been a while since the last time we talked about this: > > > http://article.gmane.org/gmane.org.user-groups.linux.gnhlug/19300/match=culture > > Note the highlighted parts. It's not obvious to me that anything's > changed since then.
Thanks for the link and reminder. Using Linux is a lot more than executing a different collection of bits on a computer. Much of the improved security is in the culture, not just in the executables. -- Lloyd Kvam Venix Corp DLSLUG/GNHLUG library http://dlslug.org/library.html http://www.librarything.com/catalog/dlslug http://www.librarything.com/catalog/dlslug&sort=stamp http://www.librarything.com/rss/recent/dlslug _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
