You will still have people running everything as root so they don't have to sudo/gksudo. Heck I found a https web-app that requires you in Linux to run your browser with sudo. You would also still have flawed development, and flawed drivers that are closed source as the manufacturer doesn't want everyone finding out how they get such good benchmarks, or where they steal there code from.<br> There will be flaws, till we write code that can write its own code it may eventually create something almost flawless, or one of its children will.<br>I think Linux allows for greater security, but also greater insecurity. Security is not were open sources power lies, it is its flexability.<br> <br>Realistically Microsoft and there 50,000+ developer army do do code review, and usually follow strict development lifecycle guidelines. But they are still human.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 8:52 AM, Andrew Swinn <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:andrew@swinn.id.au">andrew@swinn.id.au</a>></span> wrote:<br> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="im"><br> <br> > Is nina wrong or are we justified in saying that "These<br> > hackers would go out of business if people just stopped using<br> > Windows." ?<br> <br> <br> </div>Unfortunately careless users will always allow vulnerabilities.<br> <br> But, I am willing for the world to swap to Linux for a few years to try<br> that theory out, bring it on! ;)<br> <br> Andrew<br> <font color="#888888"><br> <br> --<br> </font><div><div></div><div class="h5">ubuntu-au mailing list<br> <a href="mailto:ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com</a><br> <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au</a><br> </div></div></blockquote></div><br>