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Post #327,943
by lincoln
6/14/10 11:45:37 AM
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New yahbut
it took 8 months for anybody to notice; even Windoze problems get caught faster than that.




"Chicago to my mind was the only place to be. ... I above all liked the city because it was filled with people all a-bustle, and the clatter of hooves and carriages, and with delivery wagons and drays and peddlers and the boom and clank of freight trains. And when those black clouds came sailing in from the west, pouring thunderstorms upon us so that you couldn't hear the cries or curses of humankind, I liked that best of all. Chicago could stand up to the worst God had to offer. I understood why it was built--a place for trade, of course, with railroads and ships and so on, but mostly to give all of us a magnitude of defiance that is not provided by one house on the plains. And the plains is where those storms come from."

-- E.L. Doctorow
Post #327,956
by folkert
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6/14/10 12:58:14 PM
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New Yah but...
The installation source server wasn't properly being checked.

Places that "get it" do checks everyday all the time now a days. CentOS and Debian have built in checking as a part of the distribution to mirrors process. They check against external numbers and checksums.

People are trying to get things all the time. People distributing software to the stupid masses (including most time Windows, part-time linux admins) have to be careful. There is no two ways about it.

On a counter point, its been know since 1995 and 1999 that Microsoft made extremely bad decisions on OS design... What have they done? Effectively nothing. They have built a huge wall around the issues and yet, things get by it time and time and time again.

So... 15 years and 11 years respectively? What say you to that?
     Think Linux is free from malware? Think again - (lincoln) - (9) - June 14, 2010, 11:15:17 AM EDT
         Thats lazy security - (beepster) - (2) - June 14, 2010, 11:20:03 AM EDT
             yahbut - (lincoln) - (1) - June 14, 2010, 11:45:37 AM EDT
                 Yah but... - (folkert) - June 14, 2010, 12:58:14 PM EDT
         thats why you dont download binaries - (boxley) - June 14, 2010, 12:10:40 PM EDT
         And you are saying... - (folkert) - (2) - June 14, 2010, 12:52:53 PM EDT
             ^^ that -NT - (pwhysall) - (1) - June 14, 2010, 01:16:14 PM EDT
                 Wow... the world *IS* ending. - (folkert) - June 14, 2010, 04:40:02 PM EDT
         Straw herring - (drook) - June 14, 2010, 12:56:08 PM EDT
         Malware? - (crazy) - June 16, 2010, 12:33:05 PM EDT

Halfway between the gutter and the stars.
69 ms