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Re: Obama Order Sped Up Wave of Cyberattacks Against Iran
From: Benjamin Kreuter <ben.kreuter () gmail com>
Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2012 19:22:53 -0400
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 On Sun, 10 Jun 2012 17:06:37 -0400 Laurelai <laurelai () oneechan org> wrote:
I am a bit surprised by the direction of this conversation and I have been waiting for someone to say the obvious in regards to protecting yourself from .gov malware, it really is quite simple if you think about it. Stuxnet, duqu, flame, ect.. all only run on windows platforms. If the people you are protecting are concerned about that kind of malware (and they should be) it would be a great time to tell them about GNU/Linux, BSD, ect..
Which would do little to protect anyone. Do you really think that GNU/Linux would be a more difficult target for the NSA (or whichever agencies were responsible -- I would guess the NSA, but there may be others)? GNU/Linux machines are compromised by criminals all the time, and the majority of people would not be willing to put in the effort needed to keep their system secure. There are probably a bunch of remote exploits in the Linux kernel, in Firefox and Chrome, in OpenSSL and NSS, in Ghostscript, and in any of the thousands of other packages that will be installed on a typical GNU/Linux system. There is no magic bullet here. Security is not about running the right OS, it is about running your OS the right way (and more). Telling people that using GNU/Linux will make them safe is silly. - -- Ben - -- Benjamin R Kreuter UVA Computer Science brk7bx () virginia edu KK4FJZ - -- "If large numbers of people are interested in freedom of speech, there will be freedom of speech, even if the law forbids it; if public opinion is sluggish, inconvenient minorities will be persecuted, even if laws exist to protect them." - George Orwell -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.14 (GNU/Linux) iQIcBAEBCgAGBQJP1SxSAAoJEOV0+MnZK9ijPB0P/1NQQ5ea/xQhu4vdPdMz02Km rzs/ecj4BXuD1k9kmFiZtoU9g9yG4Vm1J99baD/ywV83XeOqLuQREk0Zhv6fumax x8Cj0GEYXNinmg1n5nYqgr4g7Ba2GBc0D7NGkyckKHXpIu6QkThKKYOwdSjFkmJS yjH+2Gzz03tGHuiz/0S0mZYt6H02OAl6/cEXX45PkxnAR2V2EU2v738WcS6dpI9P sAu4osMBg8DfF/Zo+ioHcsDao7+8apJ/meVpQoZ4UDQEfasacoKVWRFKhaVKxZNG lwhqtJObpNYkMCK2/YH6JXttA6Dx93aQ2Wa0vq2sdquDK+R7V2HRd6oKgLWobCOj Pb5m//RLZRSM39rvBwOZ5ehX72zc32V+wONai+qNqEpjcD5h2JfcxsySQ9QD6dR3 c5AL4RTsEqA1Nm6gmoZlD5geQL7b9L/9s40T7bbFXUh0I5sUFLdvqyQWx8CD8nVE UxWqIlCHiZ5DLFJuXneNBhBtwEJjc9AnTrDUnRwdU/V1egf8XtXjIEJI7/6CRlex oUQBVwEE0lhRZuY/5JLIFivWMXcCXQ0awl/75rJjcULZQ/Qp7Dg/Icz34wKHrg3H FhFMtevC2KzFg2ivjqZNA4I2QQSVmSAIiGE1PMg1Cylb3eleAE4wvof24D4SE8VK uL1btjgFXC5QfqPp0Mvl =a5T+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.grok.org.uk/full-disclosure-charter.html Hosted and sponsored by Secunia - http://secunia.com/
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