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). -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org