Linux security

[albi]

On Fri, 28 Apr 2006 21:09:45 +0100
Daniel Carrera <daniel.carrera at zmsl.com> wrote:
 
> I'm wondering if Linux really is inherently resistant to viruses. 
> Notice, I don't mean "completely inmune". I want to figure out if
> saying "it is extremely hard to make a Linux virus" is a true
> statement.
> 
> First, let's be clear about the threat: loss of user data. The
> operating system itself is not that important. It's your critical
> documents. So, Linux's separation of priviledge does not actually
> help here.

theoretically it does help, because you can have one user for using the
internet and one other user working on your precious documents
(securing a box without internet-access is easier etc.)

and it must be possible to give one user only read-only access to the
documents of another user


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