On Thursday 07 February 2008 14:07, Wolfgang Woehl wrote:
Donnerstag, 7. Februar 2008 Randall R Schulz:
On Thursday 07 February 2008 12:34, Benji Weber wrote:
This is not the case. A browser running as a user can do anything the user is allowed to do.
A browser is just a browser. I can do only the things browsers do. It is not a compiler or a general-purpose computational agent.
Randall, for brevity's sake, it can do whatever an ELF LSB executable chooses to in your backyard.
No, that is not so. Can you point me to a known exploit on Firefox (e.g.) that allows execution of arbitrary code? 'Cause that's what you're claiming.
You are right, of course: The community has a top track record of finding and solving issues. Distros don't come with trojans and vicious firefox because of that. Great, and nowhere near the outlandish security issues Windows people have seen.
So, given the amount of hard work security forums put into linux security, what was good again about repeating over and over "It's safe anyway"?
The question is, what's the good of repeating over and over again that Linux is as vulnerable as Windows (a near-absolute falsehood)?
What are you saying?
Let me see if I can phrase this another way: Linux is safe when used intelligently. Intelligent use includes using secure passwords and applying security upgrades when they're made available. Intelligent use excludes running binaries or scripts supplied by unknown individuals. If that's too complicated for someone, they shouldn't be using a computer at all.
Wolfgang
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