On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 11:11 PM, gillbates <[email protected]> wrote: > From personal experience, there might be some truth to this story... > > I mean, the very nature of linux and the common application of linux > machines as servers makes it very attractive to hackers- because it's more > fun to hack for some reason, and the returns are quite attractive. When I > was in college, people weren't very interested in compromising Windows > machines. The only reason they hacked Windows PCs was to get > usernames/passwords for the linux server. And most of the time when a > machine gets compromised, only text-based terminal access is available (no > gui). As everyone here knows, there is a lot more fun stuff you can run from > bash compared to a Windows command prompt :) > > When I started working, our linux test machine got rootkitted A LOT! As far > as we can tell though, nobody touched the windows machines on our network > (ok, maybe we just didn't know about it).
The problem is, in the local space, the word hack denotes something negative, when originally, the term was used for quick, clever fixes to a problem. Be it proprietary or open source, security is prime objective to any system deployed online. End of argument. -- Jerome G. Pinoy Tech Podcast: http://www.pinoytechpodcast.com Blog: http://blog.gotangco.com _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
