New Computer? Six Steps to Safer Surfing
Matthew S. Hallacy
poptix at poptix.net
Tue Dec 21 09:31:05 UTC 2004
On Tue, Dec 21, 2004 at 06:17:42AM +0000, Christopher L. Morrow wrote:
> and Sean will/maybe-has-already pointed out that "unix" (in all it's
> glorious variations) is no more secure than anything else... as much as
> it saddens me to say all that it sure seems to be the truth. :(
Only if you turn on all the services (running as the root user), then fire
up XF86, a web browser, and email client (also running as root).
(Yes, I am well aware that you can run software on Windows as restricted
userID's. We're talking about the typical desktop though)
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Matthew S. Hallacy FUBAR, LART, BOFH Certified
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