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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)

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Matthew S. Hallacy                            FUBAR, LART, BOFH Certified
http://www.poptix.net                           GPG public key 0x01938203


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