What you seem to be missing is that although the risks of an accident may be less than for coal, the consequences are much, much worse! This is why nuclear power is an evil which we
should do without, because if something ever really goes wrong, it will be a disaster for a huge geographical area and the people that live there.
And what you seem to be missing is that the risks of nuclear power are completely different from
risks of coal. Coal power can wipe out whole human race without any accidents.
But the point people are missing in this case is that selling uranium on the Internet has no effect on risks of nuclear power or handling radioactive material. It's not like they're going to send the uranium through postal service. And if they are, they can do it very well without a web site.
Even if someone did port the WS Host and Outlook, this would NOT lead to virii of the same destructive force as on ms systems.
Linux, and Unicies in general, have much different setup in place and are designed for multiple users unlike DOS and its derivitive OSes which are still really only single user.
As long as file permissions are correct, and nobody is stupid enough to run Outlook as root, this won't be a large problem. Of course, who really wants to take the chance?
And how would the file permissions affect for instance Melissa, which doesn't seem to infect any system files? Since macro viruses (or actually worms) like Melissa or LoveLetter use e-mail to spread, they only need access permissions of regular user.
Of course this means that they only can distroy files of a single user. But how many users do YOU have in your Linux box? Most desktop machines are used by single user and therefore all the important files are owned (and writeable) by that user. Executing code from unknown origin is always a huge security risk.
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But the point people are missing in this case is that selling uranium on the Internet has no effect on risks of nuclear power or handling radioactive material. It's not like they're going to send the uranium through postal service. And if they are, they can do it very well without a web site.
Of course this means that they only can distroy files of a single user. But how many users do YOU have in your Linux box? Most desktop machines are used by single user and therefore all the important files are owned (and writeable) by that user. Executing code from unknown origin is always a huge security risk.