On Dec 22, 2010, at 5:33 PM, Parks, Raymond wrote: > Note - the following advice is for Winders - there are no significant botnets > of OSX or Linux systems.
Really? Whew! But are you sure? Seems to me that there are large number of linux/unix servers running many VMs, all of which could be compromised. And macs are getting pretty popular for not only desktops but phones and pads. And what about all the smartphones, not just iPhones? Wouldn't a couple of million hacked androids be interesting to the bot-net folks? And game machines? And AppleTV .. and heck, the TVs themselves even. And the real fear for me is the future hacking of the routers themselves, most are running linux nowadays, right? I guess its just the massive number of windows computers still is most logical due to the numbers. I'm not at all sure windows is inherently more vulnerable than mac/linux, right? -- Owen ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
