[plug] Linux Desktop Market

[Russell Steicke]

On Thu, Oct 27, 2005 at 06:54:40PM +0800, Cameron Patrick wrote:
> Really?  How is a Linux system any more secure than Windows against
> people accidentally running untrusted code?  If anything, I'd say it'd
> be in a worse boat: Linux doesn't even have "application-based"
> firewalls like Zone Alarm or virus/trojan/malware checkers.  So far
> these have not been necessary but they may well be if Windows-style
> distribution of software as unauthenticated binary executables becomes
> commonplace on Linux to.

Surely selinux is an application-based firewall, or could be
configured as such.  Granted it's not widely understood or used, but
if trojans etc for Linux systems become more common, it would provide
the means to prevent their spread.



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Russell Steicke

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