Greg Woods wrote: > On Mon, 2010-06-14 at 22:15 -0700, Patrick Bartek wrote: >> it's considerably harder simply because the system is designed, first and >> foremost, from the ground up with security in mind. With Windows, security >> seems to have been always an after thought, if thought about at all. >> >> In addition, Linux users tend to be more knowledgeable regarding the >> vagaries of computers and computing, and take reasonable precautions against >> such things. > > All of this is true, but I still think it would be wrong for us to get > too complacent about it. As soon as somebody says "this won't be a > problem on Linux", they may not be "taking reasonable precautions". Do > you check out every YouTube video for badness before you view it? Does > anyone actually do that? With the nature of this particular > vulnerability, if you are still looking at Flash videos from potentially > untrustworthy sources, then you are vulnerable even on Linux. > > I believe it is only a matter of (not much) time before Linux is > targeted. In this case, there is no update path available for Linux > users at the moment, so all of us who have installed the Adobe Flash > plugin are vulnerable. The bad guys know this. The fact that Windows is > also vulnerable until patched (possibly even more vulnerable) does not > change this. > I love kvm for this, I can make a qcow2 copy on write image of a machine, do my browsing in that with appropriate network control (not allowed to see anything inside the firewall) and then just 'shred' the image after use.
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