That is nonsense. The difference is that on Linux, you get patch-notes and then can decide whether you have the exposure. The time that Linux was "sheltered" is long, long past.

It just has become more obvious. They were always a 3rd rated amateur-level shit-show. As complexity raises and attacker pressure increases, their sheer incapability becomes impossible to ignore.

By bricking them?

I expect that in the near future, we will get an "update" broken enough that only a reinstall will fix it.

Is the high effort the attackers invested. Seems things are heating up.

>The meeting said something on my system was out of date. I installed the missing item as I presumed it was something to do with Teams, and this was the remote access Trojan,

Why on earth aren't you downloading this from a MS Teams page, if something is out of date? It certainly wasn't a popup from Teams itself that showed you this.

If I get an official looking message in email, I don't go about clicking on the links in it - I go directly to the website, log in, and see what's up.

Seems like a good way for a steady revenue stream that they haven't tapped into yet.

So you are advocating that the US get rid of it's nukes?
That's my takeaway from your statements...

>The same Iran indiscriminately bombing it neighboring countries, holding the world to ransom, and threatening to destroy the drinking water of it's neighbours.

Yeah, they are doing all of this as a RESPONSE to Israel and the US doing it FIRST! Goodness, you need to learn to read some news.

So you predict an even more immediate and catastrophic crash? Well, maybe.

Thank you. It is usually only 2-3 days per week, because I do not need to work 100%.

If you do a dumb comparison, sure. If you look at the benefits I have, it looks a bit different.

Mostly all aspects of IT security these days.

I guess we are seeing the start of the end of the hype. "Investors", dumb and clueless as they may be, are not freely pouring money into the bottomless pit that LLMs are anymore.

1. That would be illegal (Europe) and 2. I am paid from a table since as a lecturer, I am technically a public servant. (No complaints about the salary.)