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Re: is there any Windows virus that affect linux?



The weakest link in most chains of Data protection is the person that
has access to it.

Always keep that in mind.


On 12/13/2017 12:34 PM, x9p wrote:
> On Wed, December 13, 2017 6:17 am, tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:
> ...
>> If they target *you* individually, yes, they have cheaper means at
>> their disposal. That's called "rubber hose cryptanalysis"[1] -- not
>> pretty. Or, as Schneier put it "the NSA is better at breaking knuckles
>> than at breaking codes".
>>
>> Still, for an attack of the Natanz type, they seem to have picked
>> the Stuxnet way, and you and me might end up as collaterals.
> so true.
>
>> [1] Or, as XKCD puts it, in a similarly charming way, "$5 wrench
>> cryptanalysis"
>>    <https://www.xkcd.com/538/>
> I luv that comic :)
>
> cheers.
>
> --
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