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Re: New Computer? Six Steps to Safer Surfing
From: "Matthew S. Hallacy" <poptix () poptix net>
Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2004 03:31:05 -0600
On Tue, Dec 21, 2004 at 06:17:42AM +0000, Christopher L. Morrow wrote:
and Sean will/maybe-has-already pointed out that "unix" (in all it's glorious variations) is no more secure than anything else... as much as it saddens me to say all that it sure seems to be the truth. :(
Only if you turn on all the services (running as the root user), then fire up XF86, a web browser, and email client (also running as root). (Yes, I am well aware that you can run software on Windows as restricted userID's. We're talking about the typical desktop though) -- Matthew S. Hallacy FUBAR, LART, BOFH Certified http://www.poptix.net GPG public key 0x01938203
Current thread:
- RE: New Computer? Six Steps to Safer Surfing, (continued)
- RE: New Computer? Six Steps to Safer Surfing Scott Morris (Dec 19)
- RE: New Computer? Six Steps to Safer Surfing Christopher L. Morrow (Dec 20)
- Re: New Computer? Six Steps to Safer Surfing Suresh Ramasubramanian (Dec 20)
- Re: New Computer? Six Steps to Safer Surfing Christopher L. Morrow (Dec 20)
- Re: New Computer? Six Steps to Safer Surfing Suresh Ramasubramanian (Dec 20)
- Re: New Computer? Six Steps to Safer Surfing Scott Weeks (Dec 21)
- Re: New Computer? Six Steps to Safer Surfing Adrian Chadd (Dec 20)
- RE: New Computer? Six Steps to Safer Surfing Scott Morris (Dec 19)
- chewy middle bmanning (Dec 21)
- RE: New Computer? Six Steps to Safer Surfing Jeffrey Race (Dec 26)
- Re: New Computer? Six Steps to Safer Surfing Matthew S. Hallacy (Dec 21)
- Re: New Computer? Six Steps to Safer Surfing Adrian Chadd (Dec 21)
- Re: New Computer? Six Steps to Safer Surfing Matthew S. Hallacy (Dec 21)
- Re: New Computer? Six Steps to Safer Surfing Sean Donelan (Dec 24)