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on Wednesday April 22 2015, @06:19AM
from the dagnabbit-stupid-freaking.... dept.
from the dagnabbit-stupid-freaking.... dept.
A 37-year-old Colorado Springs man was cited for discharging a weapon within city limits after shooting his Dell computer 8 times with a 9mm handgun. The police report said that he "was fed up with fighting his computer for the last several months" and shot it in a back alley behind his home. What was not mentioned is exactly why he was so "fed up" with his computer. Could this senseless and violent tragedy have been avoided if his PC were running Linux instead?
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Colorado Man Ends Battle With Computer by Shooting it 8 Times
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If the thunder don't get you, then the lightning will.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by fritsd on Wednesday April 22 2015, @12:08PM
Hairyfeet, I respect that you're trying to do right to your customers, but you have to admit that if one of them gets into trouble with viruses and whatnot because of receiving an e-mail, someone in the production chain is doing something wrong.
And I don't think it's your customer, and I don't think it's you.
Disclaimer: I admit I'm a Linux fan and don't use MS Windows if I can help it.
(Score: 0, Troll) by Hairyfeet on Wednesday April 22 2015, @08:31PM
Sigh, so you believe in "magical thinking" that "If I have product X I'm gonna be safe!" while ignoring the fact that Gentoo had more exploits than IE last year [zdnet.com], or that the Linux kernel had 4 times the vulnerabilities than Windows [betanews.com]. So allow me to show you how to write a Linux in 5 easy steps [geekzone.co.nz] and please pay careful note of the fact that he uses the exact same methods Windows malware uses which you chose to ignore I noticed, like social engineering.
So it didn't have a damned thing to do with email, any service capable of sending an attachment that can be zipped will do just as well, hell most of the ones I see today don't even use any attachments but just post a link to an infected website like the "WTF" malware attack currently going after Steam users INCLUDING those using Linux. If you can trick the user into thinking you are trusted? Well short of doing like iOS and taking the ability to install away from the user the OS will eventually get pwned, and as I just demonstrated Linux is in fact worse than Windows when it comes to vulnerabilities. I would argue its because you have thousands of devs that are all doing their own thing without a single fuck given to other groups (for a recent example see systemd flipping the bird to everybody, including Linus, when it comes to logging by taking protected keywords as its own) and that the devs have been skating by on security by obscurity for so long they have gotten lax, but that is a rant for another day.
In any case you have your proof, more vulnerabilities for more bullshit. This is why if it isn't a web server? Linux isn't even a thought. Oh and it looks like I'm not alone in that as Linux has fallen so far it is now listed as "other" [netmarketshare.com] and if the current trend contionues? Linux MIGHT beat Windows XP in 2028. Its a shame that the malware writers don't look at Linux the way the rest of the world does, that security by obscurity strategy might still work, but Google fucked you when they chose the Linux kernel for Android and ChromeOS. Of course they are about to fuck Linux again [arstechnica.com] by pulling a TiVo and making it proprietary but that is a rant for another day as well.
ACs are never seen so don't bother. Always ready to show SJWs for the racists they are.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 22 2015, @10:45PM
Get a load of this goy
(Score: 2) by sjames on Thursday April 23 2015, @08:49AM
To be fair, even the "Honor system virus" can be destructive if the user is dumb enough to do what some random stranger says to do.
(Score: 2) by choose another one on Thursday April 23 2015, @09:08AM
Hairyfeet was talking about trouble from people receiving an email _and_ doing something stupid with the email. This is effectively social engineering, it will get pretty much everyone sooner or later (some much sooner and easier than others), and it is _independent_ of OS/platform.
To truly own machines by just receiving an email you need something like Shellshock with vulnerable MTA/MDA or Ghost - http://www.securityweek.com/critical-ghost-vulnerability-impacts-linux-systems [securityweek.com] - but of course those don't affect Windows, so won't worry Hairyfeet and customers....
(Score: 1, Offtopic) by Hairyfeet on Saturday April 25 2015, @06:31PM
Better watch it friend, you don't guzzle the koolaid and go along with the groupthink you too will be constantly modbombed. I've had half a dozen posts from as long as a week ago "magically" go from +5 to -1 to +4 or 5 over and over AND OVER as my little stalker tries to drive down my karma enough that I can't be seen, and I'm not the only one.
It has been pointed out several times to the admins by multiple people who are currently getting modbombed (talking to a few of those under attack its pretty obvious its a SJW that is also into FOSS) but when you consider that it would take less than 5 minutes to write a script that would highlight the IP of the one(s) doing the modbombing I can only conclude that the admins either do not care or 1 of them is also a modbomber.
So if you suddenly see your posts from a couple days ago magically go -1 (the bomber likes to wait until its off the front page, less likely of having their modbombing undone) well now you know why, if it happens to you welcome to the club.
ACs are never seen so don't bother. Always ready to show SJWs for the racists they are.