Re: Brainless Debian Stable installation and usage?
On Sat, 8 Mar 2014 21:42:47 +0900
Joel Rees <joel.rees@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 8, 2014 at 5:25 PM, Steve Litt at Troubleshooters.Com
> <littdom@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Fri, 07 Mar 2014 18:54:13 +0100
> > Guy Marcenac <guy@posteurs.com> wrote:
> >
> >> [...]. Surely, there is something I did not understand about your
> >> needs.
> >
> > Security.
> >
> > SteveT
>
> You get me in a mood to riff on Microsoft and security, and I'll rail
> on them as much as anyone. (More than most.)
>
> But it's not the tech. MSWindows 7/8, if you are willing (And most
> don't _feel_ secure unless they do.) to use Semantics's packaged
> "security" products, you can get as good results as using Linux
> without understanding security.
>
Assuming you trust Microsoft and Symantec/McAfee/whoever...
But the point here was not that XP has poor security now, but that it
will go downhill very rapidly after April 8th, when all the world's bad
guys will be targeting those who continue to use XP, and no security
holes will ever again be fixed. The same will be true, though with
rather less publicity, of Office 2003 products.
--
Joe
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