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[Aaron Kulkis <akulkis00@xxxxxxxxxx>]

James Knott wrote:
> Wolfgang Woehl wrote:
> > In that light it leaves me baffled though that people keep on 
> > downsizing this huge effort by saying "It's safe anyway".
> >
> >   
>
> I think the bottom line, is that it's far easier to be secure by default
> in Linux than Windows.  There are many security attacks in Windows for
> which either don't exist or are much harder to exploit in Linux.

To more concisely summarize:

To be safe on Windows, even the extremely cautious still
suffer successful attacks all too frequently.  (I know,
because I've seen it happen even on US Department of
Defence network which is very secure and completely
isolated from the internet which we are using here).

In contrast, with Linux, even a carefree lack of caution
on the part of the user will rarely result a successful
attack on a properly configured machine -- that generally
requires downright stupidity by the user (download
virus.tar;   tar xvf virus.tar;   ./virus/virus).



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