hey, >The article ended with;
>“Further, these top hackers have targeted the national and local websites of >the PIDS, DOST, DOLE, Napolcom, >Supreme Court and Department of Education >which are using the Linux Operating System, a free and openly >available >software which makes them highly vulnerable to hacking,” logic 1: free and openly available software makes the software vulnerable to hacking perhaps you should wonder then why google, amazon, NASA, NSA, other big companies such as: http://www.aaxnet.com/design/linux2.html are using linux? logic 2: in a population of apple, i pick one apple and its color is green... then all apples are green. it is easy to google and link articles that demonstrate a hacked linux server... but generalizing it to say that all *systems running linux are vulnerable* is a flawed logic. we can do the same logic with any OS. the better way to validate system vulnerability is to examine it in depth... and use appropriate statistics to determine which OS is more vulnerable. Knowledge is power but illusion of knowledge is more dangerous than ignorance. -ppp _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
