It's a bit harder...
Posted Oct 2, 2003 16:46 UTC (Thu) by
Baylink (subscriber, #755)
In reply to:
It's a bit harder... by giraffedata
Parent article:
A different kind of bad week
> I don't think that Linux can win here
On 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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