Ubuntu Forums - FYI

Avi Greenbury lists at avi.co
Sun Jul 21 17:18:50 UTC 2013


Basil Chupin wrote:
> On 22/07/13 01:57, Avi Greenbury wrote:
> >Basil Chupin wrote:
> >>If it is Linux then we are all in trouble - perhaps - as it is
> >>almost always claimed that Linux is unhackable.
> >By who? The huge majority of compromised servers on the net are Linux
> >ones. There's no such thing as 'unhackable'.
> 
> So it's an urban myth that Linux is unhackable?

Yes. In general, as soon as you open up a machine to The Internet and
let people interact with it you also enable vulnerabilities.

Especially, it seems, when you're running someone else's PHP on it.

-- 
Avi




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