another reason to use adblock and noscript... or just use Linux

[Derek Atkins]

"Jon 'maddog' Hall" <maddog at li.org> writes:

> Derek,
>
>>but I think Linux does start as a more
>>secure platform that Windows, so you've already got a leg up.
>
> When it comes to security, the only one that has a leg up is that one
> hacker that is going to break in, and (when you are not looking) is
> going to piss on you.

Given a standard-configuration fully-updated Windows box and compare it
to a standard-configuration fully-updated Linux box..  The windows
machine has significantly more holes in it during standard use.

> md

-derek
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