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Vote: Do you use Linux EXCLUSIVELY?
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Burn_IT
 Joined: 12 Aug 2006 Posts: 3068 Location: Tamworth UK |
Don't worry Linux will have similar holes, they just haven't been reported yet. I spent many years doing research on bugs and coding errors and it can be shown that there will ALWAYS be a predictble number of bugs in ANY large piece of software, no matter what language and what OS. The statistics also predict how many will be left after each stage of testing and how many new ones will be introduced. _________________ "Just think of it as leaving early to avoid the rush" - T Pratchett |
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Sailor Enceladus
Joined: 22 Feb 2016 Posts: 1484 |
Ok. |
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rufwoof
Joined: 24 Feb 2014 Posts: 2323 |
Ransomware strives to get in and encrypt data to demand a financial transfer in order to be able to restore the data. But what about a pure damage based attack where all they were interested in doing was causing disruption. I'm thinking along the lines of cyber-war here. How can you protect firmware from perhaps a virus that might simply issue burn new firmware commands, where trash is installed in place of the prior working firmware? That could be applied to routers, PC BIOS, network cards, hubs ...etc. System software loss ... a mild issue - time spent downloading/replacing that. Personal data loss ... more of a issue (much less so if you make good backups etc.) Hardware trashed (router, hub, PC BIOS) !!! |
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Sylvander
Joined: 15 Dec 2008 Posts: 4334 Location: West Lothian, Scotland, UK |
Hospitals In UK Hit By Ransomware Attack. First reported May 12th 2017. |
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ndujoe1
Joined: 04 Dec 2005 Posts: 779 |
Yes I use PuppyLinux exclusively. |
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Reziac
Joined: 25 Dec 2016 Posts: 6 |
For a good scare, read Hacking Linux Exposed. Of course by now all that info is outdated and the old holes have been replaced by new ones... as you say, it's just the reality of complex software, and it's not realistic to expect everyone to be OpenBSD. BTW there was a site that had a searchable, sortable list of all the hundreds (thousands?) of Puppies, which made it easy to find a Puppy of a given breed, but now I can't find it. Anyone...?? |
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ally
 Joined: 19 May 2012 Posts: 1816 Location: lincoln, uk |
http://archive.org/details/puppylinux 
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Reziac
Joined: 25 Dec 2016 Posts: 6 |
Mondo, thanks, good list to paw through
Wasn't the one I was thinking of, tho -- was a dedicated Puppy archive with search categories like "XP-like" and desktop options and so on. |
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ally
Joined: 19 May 2012 Posts: 1816 Location: lincoln, uk |
under topics and searches click more or use search box
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nic007
 Joined: 13 Nov 2011 Posts: 2351 Location: Cradle of Humankind |
Windows is superior at very important aspects of computing in my view and experience (mainly because of the availibility of better drivers for specific hardware it seems). I hate the newer Windows systems for their bulkiness though, ie. Vista and later. Puppy is compact and fun to use nevertheless. |
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rufwoof
Joined: 24 Feb 2014 Posts: 2323 |
None of the above. Mostly use Unix (OpenBSD works very well with my hardware), but keep Linux (Puppy) around for potential admin/recovery purposes. |
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