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> linux won't help ? He says Linux does help.
by azakai 15y ago
> linux won't help
? He says Linux does help.
- diminish 15y agobut he says, only because it is not much common, and different distros are too diverse to justify an "investment"
- azakai 15y agoYes, the reasons are not very impressive ones, but nonetheless.
- da_n 15y agohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security_through_obscurity http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security_through_obscurity
- tetha 15y agoI don't see the relevance. Linux is no good target, because there are not many linux boxes compared to windows/mac and because 100 linux boxes might require 10 different ways to attack them, while 100 windows boxes might require 1 or 2. There is nothing obscure here, just diversity.
- holri 15y agoDiversity is always a good tacit in defeating pest. Learn from nature / biology. Monocultures are unstable and have to be superficially stabilized with great effort.
- diminish 15y agosimilarly the guy says, he creates variations of the code in order to avoid detection. a world where hunter and the hunt all diversify.
- jiggy2011 15y agoSurely Linux would be a good target? There are hundreds of thousands of Linux servers out there and they will have a lot of bandwidth / CPU etc.
- alxv 15y agoBut how do you get the malware on the servers? Most malware spread by tricking unsophisticated users into install them. It is much harder to trick a system administrator to so. Exploiting a vulnerable public facing service is the alternative. However, that option is out of reach to all but the most dedicated attackers, assuming you keep the system updated.