That's true, but I am an expert IT person / full stack linux admin and software defveloper and I have more than plenty of experience with malware. I can tell you that I fought viruses for a living when I worked at a university; we used windows and that was the problem. None of our novell (linux) systems were affected whatseover, none of the hard ware, none of the vax systems tso systems which were unix and old, none of the mac systems were ever affected.
Yes there are hack attempts constanly on my machine but its never EVER caused a total compromise or data loss. It's been someting that has interrupted my internet, and it's compromised mostly web browsers.
my routers, which run embedded linux, have been hacked over and over so yes they can be hacked but this isn't the same thing as being compromised with malware.
The security model of windows is fucked and they keep putting out the same OS with the same underlying code base with new skin on it (i know this for a fact. I have dug into it. it's very well known thing). They don't update anything but the user interface. The underlying microsoft codebase and security model are the same and the file system is the same (ntfs with fat) In 30 yrs they have innovated NOTHING
I've never ever gotten a virus on a linux system. Ever. I have clamscanned and found something things but they were all false positives. I've gotten rootkits that turned out to be false positives. I've had situations where I thought I was hacked and it turns out it was some stupid diphshit thing I did to myself. I've found macro type viruses and suspicious code inside of downloaded PDFs that I would might have installed into my computer, if it were windows and I were dumb, but I'm not dumb. I have pdf viewers that don't use javascript and office suits (openoffice /libreoffice) that have the dumb macro stuff turned off by default
linux has a superior security model of distrust, and ubuntu/mint/debian distros turn off the root user and do other chroot (jail) types of things to prevent programs from getting root. There's also SELINUX and ACLs that prevent maliocus code execution. There are at least 4 different ways linux protects itself
Meanwhile when we couldn't get windows server to set the permissions properly (through a little gui box), my windows friend in the IT dept at work said, Oh i know this trick, well it's kind of a hack, and he uses a hack on our own system to get the superuser and then fixed it. I was like, wow that's some security, bypassing the root password and just teling the system 'hey, fuck you, here's this thing that breaks you. now do my bidding!'
So there's yoru complex answer to a simple statement about "the vulnerability of linux"
If you think that windows is the only OS that can be attacked or the only OS that has vulnerabilities, you don't know much.
That's true, but I am an expert IT person / full stack linux admin and software defveloper and I have more than plenty of experience with malware. I can tell you that I fought viruses for a living when I worked at a university; we used windows and that was the problem. None of our novell (linux) systems were affected whatseover, none of the hard ware, none of the vax systems tso systems which were unix and old, none of the mac systems were ever affected.
Yes there are hack attempts constanly on my machine but its never EVER caused a total compromise or data loss. It's been someting that has interrupted my internet, and it's compromised mostly web browsers.
my routers, which run embedded linux, have been hacked over and over so yes they can be hacked but this isn't the same thing as being compromised with malware.
The security model of windows is fucked and they keep putting out the same OS with the same underlying code base with new skin on it (i know this for a fact. I have dug into it. it's very well known thing). They don't update anything but the user interface. The underlying microsoft codebase and security model are the same and the file system is the same (ntfs with fat) In 30 yrs they have innovated NOTHING
I've never ever gotten a virus on a linux system. Ever. I have clamscanned and found something things but they were all false positives. I've gotten rootkits that turned out to be false positives. I've had situations where I thought I was hacked and it turns out it was some stupid diphshit thing I did to myself. I've found macro type viruses and suspicious code inside of downloaded PDFs that I would might have installed into my computer, if it were windows and I were dumb, but I'm not dumb. I have pdf viewers that don't use javascript and office suits (openoffice /libreoffice) that have the dumb macro stuff turned off by default
linux has a superior security model of distrust, and ubuntu/mint/debian distros turn off the root user and do other chroot (jail) types of things to prevent programs from getting root. There's also SELINUX and ACLs that prevent maliocus code execution. There are at least 4 different ways linux protects itself
Meanwhile when we couldn't get windows server to set the permissions properly (through a little gui box), my windows friend in the IT dept at work said, Oh i know this trick, well it's kind of a hack, and he uses a hack on our own system to get the superuser and then fixed it. I was like, wow that's some security, bypassing the root password and just teling the system 'hey, fuck you, here's this thing that breaks you. now do my bidding!'
So there's yoru complex answer to a simple statement about "the vulnerability of linux"