Tim:
> The honour system, in the computing fraternity, at least, died
long
> ago.
>
> Viruses, trojans, spyware, facebook...
Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. sent:
And yet...I don't hear often of many Linux machines getting
hacked or
being infected with viruses, as much as other OS'es....(don't want to
sound like a flamer!) so there must be SOME sort of "honor amongst
theives"!....
You do hear about some, but then I don't really hear about lots of
Windows being hacked, either. I'm sure many more than we'd think of, on
either camp, regularly get hacked. So-called admins often make the
daftest of choices when it comes to configuring systems.
I also wonder how many hacked Linux boxes don't get discovered for a
long time, because they don't grind to a halt as much as hacked Windows
machines do. Lots of Windows users regularly wipe and re-install,
thinking Windows has gone bad, by itself, again, like it continually
does. That's got to fix up lots of infestations in a hidden way.
I'm disappointed that my inclusion of "facebook" in that "bad"
list
didn't even get a wry smiley...
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[tim@localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp
Linux 3.6.9-2.fc17.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Dec 4 13:26:04 UTC 2012 x86_64
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