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Linux is very insecure. Maybe you have not been following the news lately.
But comparatively speaking is still more secure than Windows or OS X?
OSX is right behind it, with a culture of laxness that undoes most of the benefits the designers tried to give them.
Only use it if you want to send all of your information to FSB (modern KGB). Evgeniy Kasperskiy has friends in government, police and FSB. He also is apologet of state surveillance.
I prefer the FSB to have access to my files than NSA. What FSB can do to me? Send to Guantanamo?
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I have the impression that ever since Snowden happened, yes. Any mention of a non open source OS gets accompanied by remarks about NSA, FBI and co.
Open source projects are not shielded from this either. Plenty of paranoia, justified or not, going around these days. https://igurublog.wordpress.com/2014/04/08/julian-assange-de... http://www.theverge.com/2013/12/20/5231006/nsa-paid-10-milli... https://www.quora.com/Is-there-any-backdoor-left-in-Unix-or-... https://blog.cloudflare.com/how-the-nsa-may-have-put-a-backd... On one hand, we've been privy to some of NSA'…
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OpenBSD is pretty popular in the security community , and is as FLOSS as it gets.
Yet it's not widely used as embedded OS. I never saw any router with OpenBSD or web camera. The underlying problem, IMO, is people. They just don't care about security, they want to deliver working device. Also it's not clear how many vulnerabilities, used in real life attacks (like DDOS from IoT devices) are in latest Linux kernel? May be problem not with Linux, but with custom software or lack of updates.
Only use it if you want to send all of your information to FSB (modern KGB). Evgeniy Kasperskiy has friends in government, police and FSB. He also is apologet of state surveillance.
We should look at this as it really is: Russia is super paranoid, and increasingly isolationist. Putin is also realizing that all of his technology comes from western companies, and they are trying to build their own, so that they aren't so reliant on Cisco routers, Intel CPUs, and Apple smartphones. This will be a russian OS, designed to allow russian companies to buy routers, switches, and firewalls that are not ma…
And they have good reason to be. The US has really shot itself in the foot by intentionally compromising the systems we create. Hopefully we can use this (and similar actions by other countries) to turn that around.
"In order to hack this platform a cyber-baddie would need to break the digital signature, which – any time before the introduction of quantum computers – would be exorbitantly expensive." I loled
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Although I thought the same when I saw it, I think that's unfair. You could just as easily say Symantec/Norton/Microsoft Defender/Windows/Google is CIA/NSA. Since everything's being watched, Kaspersky might be just as much FSB as it is NSA, or any other country that could get its mitts on it. Cisco was definitely completely NSA there for a while, because of the backdoor. China's got Lenovo and every smart appliance,…
You could just as easily say Symantec/Norton/Microsoft Defender/Windows/Google is CIA/NSA. Isn't it, though? Apple seems to be the only company that has stood up to the three letter agencies. (I'm a US citizen.)
Only use it if you want to send all of your information to FSB (modern KGB). Evgeniy Kasperskiy has friends in government, police and FSB. He also is apologet of state surveillance.
You could say the same for Cisco, Juniper, and Microsoft. Even your anti-virus companies has worked with the govt to allow some govt sponsored malware through. Would be great if Kaspersky OS will be free and open source.
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The Intel ME and and AMD PSP are still executing proprietary code on an independent processor in your CPU package all the time, with full system access. Linux cannot do anything about it.
Yeah you only FTrace your entire networking stack at watch if it ever sends/receives packets without your knowledge. Or use libpcap and accomplish the same task. Or use a user space packet stack stack and disable your default network interface. I get not everything on the system is pure FOSS. But every binary ball isn't NSA spyware. If you assume that is true, you literally cannot use ANY computer. FOSS OS's make it…