Comment CVEs? (Score 4, Insightful) 62
So what are the 500 CVEs?
So what are the 500 CVEs?
I'll just leave this here:
"misconfigurations" If you use a trivially guessable root password or install sketchy vulnerable third party software all bets are off regardless of how good Linux is. But I bet that had they had SELinux enforcing or running fapolicyd (standard built in security features) they wouldn't have been hacked.
PHP has been a disaster since the beginning. People start out as novice programmers who don't know about better with PHP and it happily lets them shoot themselves in the foot. It's as if the language was specifically designed to encourage it, even. Also check out https://reddit.com/r/lolphp for a long list of PHP fails. Go update your WordPress and all plugins, too. You know it needs it.
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Also, fuck you
I was 100% Linux since before Win 95 came out. Windows 3.1 was the last Windows I ever had installed on any machine I owned.
How does secure boot reduce malware? Boot sector viruses etc have been out of style for decades. All of the malware that I'm familiar with did it's thing after the boot process. It seems like it is protecting against a largely theoretical attack.
I just checked and it looks like my post history only goes back to 2011? DId slashdot dump all of the older stuff?
My UID number here is four digits. I used to write a LOT here. So unfortunate if they had to blow away all of the old stuff.
I saw this on Facebook, commented there, but then decided I should log in here, just for old time's sake, and comment the same:
The year of the Linux Desktop was 1995 for me.
Check my post history going back nearly that far. Wow, I haven't logged into slashdot in many years. Once Facebook, reddit, etc. came along they totally replaced slashdot in my mind. I'm glad to see that it's still here.
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