On Fri, Mar 05, 2010 at 07:18:15AM +0530, Udhay Shankar N wrote: > In my opinion, what will "bury" Windows is not Linux (at least, not > directly) but trojans and botnets [1].
If this could happen, this would have happened a long while ago. And come on, how else is Skynet supposed to bootstrap quickly, other than annexing machines on the global network? > At least one of two things will have to happen, for the above scenario > to come to pass: > > 1. Microsoft (or anyone else, for that matter) will have to be forced to > accept some legal liability for the porousness of their software; That is a very big conditional. It would be much easier to make people who deploy insecure system (any insecure system, not necessarily out of Redmond, though it is the most egregious example) personally culpable. > 2. The _public perception_ of the software maker's role in putting _the > public's_ personal information at risk needs to change. The trend is still the other way. Especially the younger generation (the fools) seems to think that it's safe to be transparent. It will take a world war or a totalitarian state to teach them their errors by way of school of hard knocks, I guess. > Udhay > > [1] Too rushed for time to dig up the link that claims some two-thirds > of all Windows PCs are not under their owners' control, but I'm sure > Suresh will have it handy. :) The numbers are somewhat between one quarter and one half, IIRC. Of course it depends, your local environment could be much better, or much worse. Just get snort for your local firewall, get an oinkcode and the free rule subscriptions (or the 30 USD/year subscription) and look at the alerts. -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org";>leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE
