Re: [OS:N:] Virus Protection?

[Sitki Yurekli <yurekli_sitki yahoo com>]

Jeff, I did it, If it works so this (again) late reply will appear on
your screen fine.....


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> In summary, I think what Sitki is saying here is that people desire
> to
> hack Windows rather than Linux because Windows is "Hidden" and
> "Secret".
> 

Yes, It is one of the most important, but not the unique initiative
which makes someone to hack&crack (in the black hatted men terminology)
or attack windows&pals, exactly It was the same thing that you got ....

> In other words people want to do it because its "not permitted" or
> Naughty and therefore attractive.
> 
> And he claims this explains why Windows has so many more people/tools
> attacking it compared to Linux?
> 
> IFF my understanding of what Sitki has written is correct then
> then what Rick Moen has written here:
> http://linuxmafia.com/~rick/faq/index.php?page=virus
> 
> is something should be read, especially this passage:
> 

Surely it has, I read it and agree on lot of points, especially tne one
which made me think on it deliberately ....

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> Rick response:
> (.....) culture (....)
          ^^^^^^^

I think, there is too much more than a mailfull answer lays beyond this
concept when it refers to win-lin cultures, am I right?

> 
> I realize this does not directly address what I think is Sitki's
> point.
> 
> Sitki's point has some merit (I Think), but it applies
> equally well to both Win and Linux - People are motivated to break
> security on ALL platforms because of the challenge.  This actually
> equally to Win and Lin, but Win is simply much easier to break into.
> 

Yes, you're completely right, and it's my understanding, if I'm not
wrong with it, "living the feeling of challenge, be a successfull one
and able to do something which others can imagine" kind of literature
is a typical references for the well-known OS culture ;) .....

Just to clarify my point by taking above lines as a reference, I would
like to ask again the same question, which one does attract someone by
means of challenge, "the secret" or "the open"????

>
> This is similar to why so many more people climb Mt Marcy than climb
> Mt Everest.  (Marcy Elevation: 5,344 ft , Everest Elevation: 29,035
> feet)
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Marcy
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mt_Everest
> 

Not exactly like that, may be, following case can explain my thoughts
on the same basis of metaphorical reference as you did use; think you
don't know how high is Mt. Marcy and you know Mt. Everest is 29,035..
Which one does sense more challenging and attractive???

> 
> 

PS: Approx. an hour ago I was watching BBC discussion on something that
I couldn't catch the exact topic but it seemed like to be on
"technology, communication and welfare". I thought about such kind of
"malicious" behaviours against daily technological habits while they're
discussing on the human rights of free communication. Can we call these
as irrational by isolating them irrespectively from their own origins
(causes), those origins that we might be direct architects or
initiatives with our own preferences, misconceptions or opportunism
(and so onnnn....)... 

Cheers,

Sitki Yurekli


	
		
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