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It's a bit harder...It's a bit harder...Posted Sep 26, 2003 1:18 UTC (Fri) by giraffedata (subscriber, #1954)In reply to: It's a bit harder... by dion Parent article: A different kind of bad week Hmm. So if Linux is safer because Linux users don't know how to (or are too lazy to) detach a file and run it (by the way, there doesn't have to be an execute bit involved. The Swen analogy would be an RPM attachment that you would rpm -i), then it must also be less safe because users don't know how to or are too lazy to install real security updates. I don't think Linux can win here.
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It's a bit harder... Posted Oct 2, 2003 16:46 UTC (Thu) by Baylink (subscriber, #755) [Link] > I don't think that Linux can win hereOn the contrary, I suspect it already has. The Deep Thought in Jon's commentary here is really "defense in depth", one of the most important approaches to any type of security... and exactly what you get from the fact that there are *so many* places in which to deploy genetic diversity: different kernels, different distributions, different mail clients, different desktop managers. It rapidly becomes difficult to pick a sweet spot to target as a malware author. But, of course, this is largely *because* of the lack of "consumer" deployment of Linux. Figuring out how to continue to take advantage of that as Linux penetrates more deeply into the "consumer" market will be the big question.
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