Inside the world’s top operating system

[c3n0byt3]

It took years for the Internet to reach its first 100 computers.
Today, 100 new ones join each second. And running deep within the
silicon souls of most of these machines is the work of a technical
wizard of remarkable power, a man described as a genius and a
bully, a spiritual leader and a benevolent dictator.

http://www.iol.co.za/scitech/techno...s-top-operating-system-1.1941612#.VkBGL8_8HOo

 

[Nobody4]

UNIX ?

 

[oldBastard]

Thanks interesting read. As much as Linux has security flaws, so do Windows. Where it takes Windows months to fix a security flaw a patch for Linux is quickly available. Probably depends on the severity.

Anyways, you will never be able to stop hacking, but you can mitigate the risk though by running honey traps for instance and monitor hackers and their behaviour.

Also IPtables with fail2ban which can block unauthorized access via ssh. There are plenty more ways to mitigate the risk.

 

[c3n0byt3]

Thanks interesting read. As much as Linux has security flaws, so do Windows. Where it takes Windows months to fix a security flaw a patch for Linux is quickly available. Probably depends on the severity.

Anyways, you will never be able to stop hacking, but you can mitigate the risk though by running honey traps for instance and monitor hackers and their behaviour.

Also IPtables with fail2ban which can block unauthorized access via ssh. There are plenty more ways to mitigate the risk.

Yes no matter what people say about Torvalds, he does have a point wrt Linux security.
Or more his and the kernel's role in security.
That being that the user and application of the software should be secure in the first place.
This allows a more informed approach (which is what's happening globally now, finally) since people actually have to do something about it.
As opposed to MS, who take the approach "Don't worry, we got this...". Which is worse in my opinion.