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NSA Advises Upgrade To Windows 7

Posted by timothy on from the even-with-the-new-openbsd dept.

An anonymous reader writes "In a document available from the NSA (warning, PDF file), that organisation advises users to upgrade to Windows 7 as part of their Best Practice for Securing a Home Network. No mention of BSD or Linux so I guess the Slashdot crowd will just have to bite the bullet and change operating systems if they want to be really secure."

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  1. awful summary by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    way to be a teenage provocative troll

  2. Considering who this is talking about, so what? by Derekloffin · · Score: 5, Insightful

    This is talking to your average home user, and guess what, Linux is not exactly a popular desktop OS. It certainly has it's draw, but switching over to it just is a non-starter for most people. You'll also note they talked about Mac OS upgrades too, not just windows 7. Windows 7 upgrade was mentioned specifically if they were already using a windows OS.

  3. Misleading summary by whoever57 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The article suggests that, if your are running Windows, that you upgrade to Windows 7 or Vista.

    It also has advice for MAC users.

    Just because it has no advice for Linux or BSD users doesn't mean that the article suggests that Linux or BSD users should switch to Windows.

    [But you all knew that -- whenever are /. summaries accurate?]

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    1. Re:Misleading summary by AHuxley · · Score: 4, Insightful

      For the BSD users http://cryptome.org/0003/fbi-backdoors.htm
      The NSA would not really care what OS you use, its all networking in plain text and a known ip to them.
      64 bit Windows 7 just reduces the malware and provides a cleaner network.

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      Domestic spying is now "Benign Information Gathering"
  4. The NSA was addressing 99% of people by betelgeuse68 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Not the 1% who use LINUX desktops. Spare me the trolling. I like Ubuntu a lot, but I'm a tech person. Most people aren't, get over it.

  5. Goddamnit Slashdot by atomicbutterfly · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Windows 7 IS a worthy upgrade from XP - certainly from the security point of view. I have helped people with transitions from XP/Vista to 7 and found an almost unanimous praise for it. Given the choice, people preferred 7 for reasons of aesthetics, functionality and robustness.

    The longer the Linux crowd believes that Microsoft can not make decent quality (once in a while at least), the longer they'll fail to make any changes which might someday resolve the issues that push people away from Linux.