Why is another botnet, based on the incredibly insecure Windows VPS (virus propogation system), of interest. Yet another bot net, and more yabber (slang for talk) on the subject.
Why doesn't the world of professional computer types fess up that Windows might look nice, might be easy for dummys to use, but is BAD.
BAD for you. BAD for me. BAD for everybody.
And the solution might be a little less pretty, perhaps, and a little more costly (depending on how you define "the solution"), but it will be GOOD.
Damn the world's users for their blindly ignorant view on computers.
How's this for a solution. Keep all your data somewhere outside the US, or any other country that implements the same measures, and don't keep anything of value on your mobile devices.
And if all the world turns against you from a privacy standpoint, which might happen, then look at obfuscation as well as encryption techniques.
If you want privacy, then *you* have to make it happen. Don't expect, ever, others to implement your privacy for you.
People submitting code into the general OSS
code-base are recognised for the code they
produce, not the code they leave out.
This is one of the reasons why preferences are as
common as dirt - you have to write code to make them work.
It is also the same reason
why we have dozens of sendmail/ftp/irc etc...
replacements out there. We don't need them,
there are plenty already, but
coders feel they have the need to code
rather than feeling the need to think about
what they code.
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Why is another botnet, based on the incredibly insecure Windows VPS (virus propogation system), of interest. Yet another bot net, and more yabber (slang for talk) on the subject. Why doesn't the world of professional computer types fess up that Windows might look nice, might be easy for dummys to use, but is BAD. BAD for you. BAD for me. BAD for everybody. And the solution might be a little less pretty, perhaps, and a little more costly (depending on how you define "the solution"), but it will be GOOD. Damn the world's users for their blindly ignorant view on computers.
And if all the world turns against you from a privacy standpoint, which might happen, then look at obfuscation as well as encryption techniques.
If you want privacy, then *you* have to make it happen. Don't expect, ever, others to implement your privacy for you.
This is one of the reasons why preferences are as common as dirt - you have to write code to make them work.
It is also the same reason why we have dozens of sendmail/ftp/irc etc... replacements out there. We don't need them, there are plenty already, but coders feel they have the need to code rather than feeling the need to think about what they code.