cross-platform virus

[Sasha Tsykin]

Alan McKinnon wrote:
> You raise an interesting point, and technically you are correct.
> 
> Security is always about finding that fine balance between safety and 
> disruptiveness. Currently there are very few Trojan writers out there 
> targeting *nix so for the time being we are relatively safe.
> 
> I predict that it's only a matter of time before the target of Trojans 
> shifts away from Windows. After the first wave of them, distros will 
> respond by changing their sudo default to no tokens
> 
Which would infuriate everybody who sues linux because it would be a 
pain in the ass, although, admittedly you could use the sudo -s command.

Sasha