Re: Security followup
This is why saying things like "use Linux, you'll be more secure" are totallyYes and no. Much of what you say is true. You can't, for example, compare the CIS tests for Windows and for Linux to say which one is more secure, because the tests aren't complementary.
misleading.
However, that doesn't mean that you can't talk about underlying capability - for example, about whether passwords are stored encrypted or not, and what encryption methods are used.
In other words, you can't say that this Linux machine is more secure than that Windows machine simply because of its operating system. The individual configuration of each machine needs to be taken into account. However, you can say - along with the majority of veteran system administrators - that, overall, Linux has the POTENTIAL for greater security. Its features and the approach to security taken by its development community help to ensure that.
I mention this in the interests of accuracy, but it's starting to sound uncomfortably like a holy war.
One thing we can all agree on: if you want to be secure, you have to learn about security measures, and implement them. You can't just choose a piece of software and be secure. Choosing to run Linux won't automatically make you safer. Nor will simply installing Norton AntiVirus.
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