It seems as though I hear the clucking of chickens on the horizon, wending their way home to M$. In our increasingly inter-tubed existence most of the on-line population has been held hostage to Microsoft Windows' monopoly.
Business interactions have long required compatible software, at the expense of security. Witness Google's prickly relationship with China. The breach of security has, it seems prompted Google to search for an alternative.
Google ditches Windows on security concerns
By David Gelles and Richard Waters in San Francisco
Published: May 31 2010 23:26 | Last updated: May 31 2010 23:26
-(I can't quote any of the article according to their copyright. It's a good read, though).- After my reading comprehension of the copyright restrictions was corrected, here's a snip...
Google is phasing out the internal use of Microsoft’s ubiquitous Windows operating system because of security concerns, according to several Google employees.
The directive to move to other operating systems began in earnest in January, after Google’s Chinese operations were hacked, and could effectively end the use of Windows at Google, which employs more than 10,000 workers internationally.
"We’re not doing any more Windows. It is a security effort," said one Google employee.
"Many people have been moved away from (Windows) PCs, mostly towards Mac OS, following the China hacking attacks," said another.
It seems also, that this directive is coming from the top with employees saying that if they want to keep using Windows, they need permission from their CIO because of the OS's hack vulnerability.
It's obvious that windoze is vulnerable because of market dominance (hey, it's what the hackers use!). I wouldn't claim that there aren't hackers writing code for Mac and Linux*, but it's the open source nature of Linux** and the natively closed ports which make it nearly impossible to hack.
Re: Ive been hacked! can u help?
iptables is firewalling your computer from the first login. ITs part of the install. If you want an easy to use interface to iptables -- try firestarter -- its in the universe repos.
sudo apt-get install firestarter from a terminal.
I have a virus scanner on my linux machine just to protect the windows users I deal with. I think there are only like 2 or 3 known linux viruses and you have to be very careless -- giving a "bad" program root privileges.
I think your friend is pulling your leg
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* I can't speak about Mac because I know nuttin.
** open source - everyone who writes code for the numerous Linux flavours is a 'hacker'. The difference is, everyone can see it and identify problem coding.