Re: A rookie's query: Want to about Debian and the related
On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 9:52 PM, Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf@alice-dsl.net> wrote:
> Phishing = faked web sites that ask you to give passwords etc. have nothing
> to do with the used operating system.
Oh I see.
> Attacks that use buffer overflows and other bugs or weak points are the less
> likely, the less the software is used. You for sure won't find backdoors in
> open source code, backdoors for the NSA, for marketing etc. are exclusive
> provided
> by Microsoft and Apple and _closed_ source for Linux.
> Linux servers are as often attacked as other servers too. Linux audio web
> sites
> very often where hacked.
Then "phishing" activates only when one types the credentials into the
fraud login prompts and if we just don't login on those fake pages --
we are free from Phishing attacks I guess.
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