Yeah...that'd be a great virus. Obviously modelled after the Windows virus that tries to delete everything under C:\. Oh...wait...gee...that wouldn't work either. Maybe I'll just wait for the Linus virus that looks for unprotected passwd files, cracks them, and creates a blog of usernames, passwords, and IP addresses.
As much as I like the open source community, it is thriving in a much less hostile environment than Windows. If you want to compare the two platforms in any meaningful way, you can't look at what people have done to break them since there is infinitely more incentive to breaking Windows than Linux.
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Yeah...that'd be a great virus. Obviously modelled after the Windows virus that tries to delete everything under C:\. Oh...wait...gee...that wouldn't work either. Maybe I'll just wait for the Linus virus that looks for unprotected passwd files, cracks them, and creates a blog of usernames, passwords, and IP addresses. As much as I like the open source community, it is thriving in a much less hostile environment than Windows. If you want to compare the two platforms in any meaningful way, you can't look at what people have done to break them since there is infinitely more incentive to breaking Windows than Linux.