Hi :) No, that is the point i am disagreeing with. If Gnu&Linux, Bsd and other Unix-based OSes were equally vulnerable then we would see a lot more servers being compromised. Affecting several thousand servers would have a vastly higher impact then affecting that many desktops wouldn't it? So, why bother with desktops if servers are just as vulnerable? For the same effort more data could be collected and more disruption could be caused by aiming at servers. So why bother with creating malware for desktops at all? When not just target servers?
Compare with other sorts of crime. Imagine no corporate crime, no fraud, no scams just about 50%-20% of everyone getting mugged for loose change on the way home a couple of times a year. It's low hanging fruit but just not worth the investment of time and effort so people go for bigger targets to get more cash. Why doesn't this happen with malware? Why not several thousand servers instead of just desktops? Regards from Tom :) ________________________________ From: David <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Sat, 3 September, 2011 21:11:30 Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: JRE older installs - Windows - nowonline- no need for Oracleaccount On 9/3/2011 4:02 PM, planas wrote: BIG <snip> <snip /> Security by obscurity. So few people use Linux that Linux is not significant enough to be of value to the 'bad guys' out there. Should Linux ever become common enough that more than about 50 million people, [1] in a world of 5 Billion people, use it - then it might become *worth the effort*. What do you think? [1] "Linux Counter Summary Report" <http://counter.li.org/reports/short.php> David -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
