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Re: [News] GNU/Linux Gets Recognised as Secure Alternative to Windows

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____/ 7 on Wednesday 14 Oct 2009 20:22 : \____

> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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>> Small Businesses Should Bank Securely â And That Means Linux: WashPo
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>> | Bill Gates isnât going to like this one
>> | bit.
>> | 
>> | Small business owners should boot their
>> | Windows computers into Linux, according to
>> | Washington Post columnist Brian Krebs, if
>> | they want to bank online without risk of
>> | someone stealing their banking password,
>> | and shortly after that, their money.
>> | Assertions like that must sting Microsoft,
>> | especially considering the emphasis it
>> | placed on security during the launch of its
>> | Vista operating system.
>> `----
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>> http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2009/10/small-businesses-should-bank-securely-%E2%80%93-and-that-means-linux-washpo/
> 
> 
> And what are the banks going to do about it?
> The banking management live in la la land and can't face up to
> realities of a dead OS thats threatening them with
> massive fraud and losses.
> What are they going to file in their SEC reports?
> What are they going to sell to their investors?
> What are they going to tell to their customers?
> 
> A pack of Lies?
> 
> More viruses, malware, spyware, trojans and keyloggers
> are written per day than all the engineers that micoshaft
> and ALL its partners have time to look at or fix.
> 
> And Linux PCs can do all the thing windump PCs claim
> to be doing and a lot more than that.
> 
> So it is banking business priority to take active measures
> to ban windump PCs permanently from logging into banking
> systems, If banking management can't accept that
> responsibly then accept responsibility in public for all fraud
> committed online and explain it in SEC filings and
> to their investors and banking customers.
> 
> Its one or the other.

Melinda French is on the board of the WashPost. Maybe they can shoot
down some messengers instead because it's cheaper. (j/k)

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