On Sun, 10 Jun 2012 17:06:37 -0400, Laurelai said: > I am a bit surprised by the direction of this conversation and I have > been waiting for someone to say the obvious in regards to protecting > yourself from .gov malware, it really is quite simple if you think about > it. Stuxnet, duqu, flame, ect.. all only run on windows platforms. If > the people you are protecting are concerned about that kind of malware > (and they should be) it would be a great time to tell them about > GNU/Linux, BSD, ect.. You *do* realize that's basically the same logic as "Macs don't get viruses", only even worse security-wise. If your threat model actually includes "attacked by state actors", then it should include the possibility that the team of state actors includes an OSX jockey and a few Linux geeks.
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