On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 9:21 PM, [email protected] wrote:
With a "personal firewall" (I am not talking about professional usages), proprietary software users protect themselves from the programs they installed (that can be remotely controlled by their real owners, that can send private information to them, etc.) and from those they have not willfully installed but that are there anyway (such as Troyan horses). With free software, the first issue basically is inexistent (except for Ubuntu's spyware): the users control the software. And because crackers do not usually attack GNU/Linux (less users, who are not easily duped, who run a great variety of applications, who do not run them as root, who have automatic security updates, etc.), the second issue essentially is inexistent as well.
Thanks for your comments. I wonder if the crackers will ever start attacking GNU/Linux... as an aside, there's a really fun new TV show called Mr. Robot (here in the USA) that features a really good cracker, and he uses GNU/Linux at his day job... cool show, if you get a chance to see it.
-Harris
