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Granularity of popularity

Posted Apr 14, 2008 22:44 UTC (Mon) by phiggins (subscriber, #5605)
In reply to: Granularity of popularity by Richard_J_Neill
Parent article: RSA: Security Experts Debate Linux Vs. Microsoft (ChannelWeb)

If one of those binaries is setuid root, then you'll surely wish you had uninstalled it after
someone exploits it. There are other reasons to not have unnecessary programs installed, such
as a compiler.

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