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On 09/10/10 19:35, Kurt Brendgard wrote:
> I came across this on Yahoo news first, followed it back to PC World.
> Interesting that mags like PC World seem to be running more and more like it,
> almost like some are bucking the code of conduct of nothing but Windows.
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> http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/205298/here_you_have_is_a_windows_problem.html?tk=hp_new
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The first point of the article was somewhat unfair. Technically, Linux
also gives you root access by default. It's just that most distributions
also set up a non-privileged user account during system setup, which is
a configuration Microsoft could probable adopt as well rather easily if
they felt enough market pressure.
The second point carries a lot more weight, in my opinion. This is a
fundamental difference in viewpoint: in the ideal Microsoft universe,
everybody runs the same software on the same OS; in the open source
universe, there are a lot of different OSes, OS variants, and software
implementations, but we all communicate with the same protocols and
interface with the same open standards. So the open-source world is more
secure, because the virus or worm meets a different implementation and
configuration at each step of its propagation.
The third point is also valid. I'm amazed, frankly, that any
security-sensitive organization would depend on Windows for anything
important. If it was my company on the line, I would want to be able to
look over every bloody line of source code in the whole system, and
compile it my self.
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Christopher Howard
frigidcode.com
theologia.indicium.us
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