On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 10:06 AM, Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: > Of course, Linux is a much > harder target than the average unpatched Windows box, and there are > probably easier ways to get access to your files if they really need to.
Plus "Linux" isn't a single target. You can search the internet for Windows XP boxes and there's an extremely high chance they'll all be running the same base services; when you're attacking Linux, there's a much MUCH smaller set of common code, with most attacks being aimed at an application - which may or may not be running on any given computer. So there's a lot less chance that you'll be randomly assaulted just for connecting to the internet; the attacks are most likely to come from browsing a site that exploits a Javascript vulnerability. I'm not particularly bothered by the possibility of someone snooping at what I'm doing. Oh how terrible, they'll discover that I'm just as nerdy in private as I am in public... ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list