Linux Security

[Tod Merley]

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On 9/5/06, Timothy Murphy <tim at birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie> wrote:
> Tod Merley wrote:
>
> > It is my hope that we detach our feelings about our OSs and attend to
> > their need for security.
>

### THE FOLLOWING IS NOT MINE!!!! ####

> >From my experience, the probability of a Linux system being compromised
> is almost negligible compared with the same for a Windows system.
>

###########################

> This may be, as you suggest, because hackers target Windows systems.
> But that doesn't alter the fact that Linux systems are much safer
> in the real world.
>

Is that really true??  How do we know?? "Bot" makers love this
attitude!  It keeps them alive!!!

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