Malware for Linux

[Lloyd Kvam]

On Sat, 2012-07-14 at 02:34 -0400, Joshua Judson Rosen wrote:
> "Michael ODonnell" <michael.odonnell at comcast.net> writes:
> >
> > Those who use terms like "immune" or "virus-proof" when
> > discussing Linux do everybody a disservice since neither
> > is true.  We are, for now, statistically less likely to be
> > compromised because there aren't as many of us and because
> > privilege separation has been more the custom with us than
> > with Windows users.  Those factors are changing, though...
> 
> I guess it's been a while since the last time we talked about this:
> 
> 	http://article.gmane.org/gmane.org.user-groups.linux.gnhlug/19300/match=culture
> 
> Note the highlighted parts. It's not obvious to me that anything's
> changed since then.

Thanks for the link and reminder.  Using Linux is a lot more than
executing a different collection of bits on a computer.  Much of the
improved security is in the culture, not just in the executables.

-- 
Lloyd Kvam
Venix Corp
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