On Thu, 12 Mar 2015 20:30:54 +0100, A wrote:

Char Jackson wrote:
On Wed, 11 Mar 2015 12:37:45 -0700, T wrote:

You are deceiving yourself if you think Linux is not more
secure. It is open for anyone to look at. No back doors.
World wide code checkers.

I've heard that repeated many times over the years, and yet there have been
several openSSL issues that have recently come to light, one or more of
which is said to have existed for over a decade. Just because people *can*
check the source doesn't necessarily mean that anyone does.


Linux isn't bulletproof but it's more secure than Windows. If only it
had a decent office suite. Alas, maybe some day. A lot of that I think
has to do with Linux users being more tech savvy as a whole than Windows
users as most users are compromised by being tricked into either
clicking on something they shouldn't or by being persuaded to part with
their money or both.

"More secure", yes, but I was primarily knocking the assumption that a lot
of eyes are looking at the code because it's open source. I don't really
think that's true.