[ale] Linux Security article
Robert Coggins
ALE at CogginsNet.com
Fri Feb 20 13:26:43 EST 2004
Yeah that is pretty much what I started telling him... But I wasn't
sure if there is more to back it up. I just tryi to look for things to
entice diehard windows users to atleast try linux....
Chris Ricker wrote:
>On Fri, 20 Feb 2004, Robert Coggins wrote:
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>>Hey all,
>>
>>Here at work I have been pushing linux and would use the argument that
>>linux is so much more secure etc. and etc. Someone that I have been
>>advocating to just sent me the following link. How do I argue this
>>article. The only thing I can think to say it read the last
>>paragraph... :)
>>
>>http://news.com.com/2100-1002_3-5162055.html?tag=nefd_top
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>I'm not sure that there's anything to argue. It's true that there was
>another round of local root exploits found in the Linux kernel. Linux does
>have security issues, just like any OS. Unlike some other OSes, though,
>security fixes are generally timely (unlike, say, the six months it took
>Microsoft after the remote ASN.1 vulnerabilities were pointed out to them
>;-)
>
>later,
>chris
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