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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. Treating distros like applications? by tepples · · Score: 0, Troll

    So I discover that a printer works best with one distro, a scanner with another, and a video card with a third. Am I supposed to run the distro that likes my video card on the bare hardware and then launch VMs every time I want to print or scan?

  2. Upgrade or Downgrade ? by Alain+Williams · · Score: 1, Troll

    If you are running MS Windows XP or Vista Then an upgrade to MS Windows 7 is quite reasonable. The reason that they did not mention Linux users is because for them MS Windows 7 would be a downgrade.