I know we always hear about how superior Linux is to Windows in terms of security, but most things I read primarily talk about what is wrong with Microsoft and never admit to any possible vulnerabilities with Linux. This Newsforge article is the first I’ve seen that actually tries to gauge how vulnerable Linux may be to security breaches. Newsforge asked a bunch of computer security experts to weigh in on the subject. Their consensus is that yes, Linux has some vulnerabilities that could be exploited, but no, it is not even close to being as vulnerable as Windows.
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Linux vulnerabilities? What vulnerabilities?
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Meredith Farkas
12/10/2004
Meredith Farkas is a faculty librarian at Portland Community College in Oregon. From 2007-2021, she wrote the monthly column “Technology in Practice” for American Libraries. Meredith was honored in 2014 with the ACRL Instruction Section Innovation Award, in 2008 and 2011 with the WISE Excellence in Online Education Award and in 2009 with the LITA/Library Hi Tech award for Outstanding Communication in Library and Information Technology. She has been writing the blog Information Wants to be Free since 2004.
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