Rich wrote:

In infinite wisdom Martin answered:

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But I've seen many security problems on unix systems over the years,
usually of the buffer overflow variety that allows a root shell to
be obtained. Unix is no more secure than it's system admin. Now for
home systems this is rarely a big problem. But how many companies have
had credit card numbers stolen by a hacker, from unix based systems?
How many govt agencies have had sensitive information stolen, from
unix systems, by hackers? Check out "The Cuckoo's Egg".

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0743411463/102-9899101-0828923?v=glance

Reread it.  quite a bit of that took place on DEC machines because
administrators were too lazy to change the password of certain
critical accounts.  UNiX machines were only a small part of those
broken into and many of those, only because someone had sent
a password to someone on a machine that had already 
been broken into.

I'd strongly suggest that you don't just assume that linux is safe.
Hackers could discover a bug tomorrow and everything could change.
I'd still bet that Linux is better than windows, but I also bet that
few Linux owners keep their systems up to date or apply security patches.

Rich

Take your ignorant uninformed troll bait elsewhere.

Martin

Most of us take security very seriously.  And most distributions  of Linux
come wtih ftp and telnet turned "OFF"