text_combined: aaron kulkis cmiqlkx91hotpopcom wolfgang woehl wrote aaron kulkis sloan wrote philippe landau wrote almost never click tinyurl dont know hides im linux user click anything feel like without fear viruses spyware security insignificance id consider getting rid habit whenever judged interested parties linux desktops ranged significant amounts specific box gets judged significant linux based unix incorporates unix security model unix security model expects hostile code run system design multiuser system even assuming users legitimate use system good faith assumes programmers perfect accidents fact happen thats readwriteexecute permissions keeps system safe notion malware linux technically feasible highly irrational think experienced senior linux users shouldnt keep spreading deceptive mantra know better primary threat bufferoverflow problem demonstrated devastatingly 1987 morris worm learned lessen use strcat instead strncat similarly unlimited writes stack space memory matter malware entirely root remember john doe user accounts dsl pipes privacy breaches appscandoall etc know list still execute within chains rwx permissions thats think itd good longterm practice rather gossip sound decent security awareness desktop truly dont know youre talking go buy read design unix operating system maurice j bach paid 80 3rd edition 1980s used copies 4th edition available paltry sum 15 good wolfgang tue 05 aug 2008 175237 0500 opensuse opensuse 11