Comment 619 for bug 1

I don't know, I think this bug is a critical security issue. Though
it's fair to say that Linux would be the target of many more viruses
and malware applications if it were as popular as Windows, it would
also rather help if everyone were using an OS where security is built
in from the ground up, as in Linux, rather than tacked on as an
afterthought, like Windows. The fact that it's accepted wisdom that an
ordinary, unprotected computer running Windows out of the box will
soak up spyware like a sponge as soon as it's connected to the
Internet is one of the biggest threats to computer security today,
especially since cybercrime now relies on hijacking the computers of
casual users and assimilating them into vicious and powerful botnets.
This can all be traced back to a widespread view that Windows is the
"default" operating system, and an inefficient and unsustainable model
that says the entire wired world's security problems should be taken
care of entirely by overworked programmers in Redmond, their patches
released once a month. Windows is simply not equipped to deal with
today's computer security threats, and that's not Microsoft's fault so
much as it shows how outmoded their thinking is.

So, with botnets being the latest, biggest frontier in online crime, I
think it's clear that Bug #1 is the harshest and most pressing
security issue in IT today.

On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 3:03 AM, Matthew Paul Thomas <email address hidden> wrote:
> ** This bug is no longer flagged as a security issue
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> Microsoft has a majority market share
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1
> You received this bug notification because you are a bug assignee.
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