On Sunday 18 June 2006 06:38 pm, Dinesh Joshi wrote: > > Microsoft's _major_ audience includes these "idiots" (no offense > meant to windoze users) and I guess nobody, not even the F/OSS > community can create idiot proof softwares. Micosoft can hardly > keep up to these bigger and better "idiots". Hence the > proliferation of worms, viruses, trojans, malware etc...
some Ammo for M$ FUD. Security is not about user idiocity. It Is about a sane architecture which will require substantial (complex) user intervention to make it less secure. > it isn't impossible to get > your *nix box r00ted while your windoze box remains secure. Really? What do you haveto do to get let say a Sarge (Kubuntu?) box rootkitable. What do you have to do to get a Win XP box to the same state. Nothing at all in the 2nd case. Secondly exploiting a vulnerability in a GNU distro requires substantial ability, whereas in the case of M$ it requires very little. > Disclaimer: I am neither in the M$ camp nor are they paying me to > write this. Actually u would be excused if they were paying you. You might have got a bonus for the abv ammo ;-). M$ could run an ad M$ is secure except for idiototic users. And since no user think he idiot security problem solveeed. -- Rgds JTD -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
