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Re: ~article~ Are you Google's gopher?

Roy Schestowitz schreef:
__/ [ tonnie ] on Friday 15 September 2006 12:22 \__

Roy Schestowitz schreef:
__/ [ Big Bill ] on Friday 15 September 2006 09:17 \__

On Fri, 15 Sep 2006 05:37:42 +0100, Roy Schestowitz
<newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

__/ [ Paul ] on Thursday 14 September 2006 17:44 \__

From : http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/5336284.stm

Google has just taken on legions of new workers. None are being paid -
and you might be one of them.

Since workplace computers were hooked up to the internet, office
workers have found more ways of wasting time at work, with e-mailed
jokes or videos of apparently-amusing accidents.

<snip />
More recently, Google unveiled a servcies wherein people label images
for Google. Amazon has been doing something similar, but compensated
people for their time. Microsoft does the same thing when it encourages
people to serve as test dummies. Why would people help multi-billion
corporations for free?
Because it's fun. Make sweeping the streets into a fun game instead of
deadly boring and you'll have clean streets.

it's beyond me...

Microsoft wants more Vista testers
I finally got IE7 going yesterday, after a few snafus. The sites I've
viewed so far through it seem ok, much to my chagrin. I was hoping for
a coding frenzy :-(
I thought IE7 requires XP at the least. Aren't you using Windows 98 SE?
Which reminds me: please upgrade as there are no longer patches available.
Your machine is a menace that could pollute the Web (us included) with
SPAM and DDOS attacks. Refusing to do so is just irresponsible. YMMV. The
most modern Linux distributions would run gracefully on hardware which is
Windows 98-compatible, in case you are willing to harness new skills with
the fastest growing platform.
As far is i can remember, Win98 SE was the most secure, even more than
XP. And now it has become a system that less are using, chances are it
will become more secure in time. No virus maker that is respecting
him/herself will see it as an important target anymore.

And lets face it, since Linux aint used by the majority, it will be
targeted less. Once it has become large enough, there will be searched
for exploits and possible safety issues on a larger scale until it can
and will be abused.

That's a widespread fallacy that is very convenient for Windows advocates to use. Any security guru will tell you it is not true. See, for example, the following:

The short life and hard times of a Linux virus

,----[ Quote ]
| For a Linux binary virus to infect executables, those executables must
| be writable by the user activating the virus. That is not likely to be
| the case. Chances are, the programs are owned by root and the user is
| running from a non-privileged account. Further, the less experienced
| the user, the lower the likelihood that he actually owns any
| executable programs. Therefore, the users who are the least savvy about
| such hazards are also the ones with the least fertile home directories
| for viruses.
| | [...]
`----


                                        http://librenix.com/?inode=21

I am not sure the above refers to memory allocation in GNU/Linux, which makes
memory buffer overflow exploits almost impossible. Windows was built as a
single-user O/S from the ground up, so it lacks the solid absis
(pseudo-multiuser does not help). Jim Allchin said Windows needs 60% of its
code to be rewritten, for a reason.

I agree, to some point a linux based system is less vulnerable. But that is not what i meant. Due to the fact that windows is now the major system, it is attacked and searched for vulnerability's the most.


If it one day will be linux that is the most used system, then there most certainly will be some one who finds a weak spot to use.

About spreading without knowing:

http://www.desktoplinux.com/articles/AT3307459975.html



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