San mo nakita ung article? (below) > > >“Further, these top hackers have targeted the national and local websites > of the PIDS, DOST, DOLE, Napolcom, >Supreme Court and Department of > Education which are using the Linux Operating System, a free and openly > >available software which makes them highly vulnerable to hacking,” >
-- Louie Miranda ([email protected]) http://www.louiemiranda.net Quality Web Hosting - www.axishift.com Pinoy Web Hosting, Web Hosting Philippines On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 2:34 PM, paul <[email protected]> wrote: > hey, > > >The article ended with; > > >“Further, these top hackers have targeted the national and local websites > of the PIDS, DOST, DOLE, Napolcom, >Supreme Court and Department of > Education which are using the Linux Operating System, a free and openly > >available software which makes them highly vulnerable to hacking,” > > logic 1: free and openly available software makes the software > vulnerable to hacking > > perhaps you should wonder then why google, amazon, NASA, NSA, other > big companies such as: http://www.aaxnet.com/design/linux2.html are > using linux? > > logic 2: in a population of apple, i pick one apple and its color is > green... then all apples are green. > > it is easy to google and link articles that demonstrate a hacked linux > server... but generalizing it > to say that all *systems running linux are vulnerable* is a flawed > logic. we can do the same logic with any OS. the better way to > validate system vulnerability is to examine it in depth... and use > appropriate statistics to determine which OS is more vulnerable. > Knowledge is power but illusion of knowledge is more dangerous than > ignorance. > > -ppp > _________________________________________________ > Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List > http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug > Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph >
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