On Sat, 21 Aug 2004 10:25:04 -0400 Bryan Phinney disseminated the following:
> Ahhh, right. I mean, why would a hacker bother to try to hit Linux when all > he would manage to do is compromise thousands of machines that make up the > entire Internet backbone. I mean, what would be the good in, say > compromising all the google clusters and disrupting the primary search engine > of the Internet? The other script kiddies would probably laugh you out of > the Internet cafe when talking about that compared to, oh, sending out a > brain-dead virus built from a kit, using a vulerability that was published a > year ago, that hits home users who haven't updated their software since they > bought their computer. Yeah, it must be that whole windows popularity thing, > I am sure that the comparitive difficulty in targeting Linux over windows has > absolutely nothing to do with it. Pull the other one. ROFLMAO! Nice...that's a keeper. The far less amusing version, dare I post it again: http://securityfocus.com/columnists/188 -- JoeHill RLU #282046 / www.freeyourmachine.org 10:42:22 up 17 days, 10:25, 8 users, load average: 0.16, 0.26, 0.25 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++ "92 per cent of Iraqis regard US troops as occupiers, while 2 per cent see them as liberators, according to a Coalition Provisional Authority poll." -- Financial Times, June 17 2004
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