On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 5:35 PM, Manuel Aróstegui <manuel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > El sáb, 29-03-2008 a las 12:19 -0600, Arthur Pemberton escribió: > > > So you're saying a concentrated effort to hack a single machine (only > > one with Linux) is an easier test than machines randomly on the > > internet operated by noobs who barely know how to change advanced > > settings? The arguement is always made that noobs stick with the > > defaults, most distro defaults are pretty secure. > > I'm saying the opposite. > It's great they couldn't hack it, but as you say there're loads of > machines operated by noobs, so the fact of not being able to hack that > machine in the contest doesn't mean that the noobs can feel safer > because they run a Linux distro in their servers. Ah. Then we can agree. Frankly, I blame Microsoft and all the geeks who seem to feel for being geeks and want to dumb everything down. -- Fedora 7 : sipping some of that moonshine ( www.pembo13.com )
