Re: Every incident is an opportunity (was Re: Hackers hit key Internet traffic computers)

[Gadi Evron <ge () linuxbox org>]

On Mon, 12 Feb 2007, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 01:45:41AM -0500,
>  Sean Donelan <sean () donelan com> wrote 
>  a message of 16 lines which said:
>
> > The important lesson is you can educate people. The content may have
> > been bogus,

<snip>

> > If you can come up with a few simple things to do, it is possible to
> > reach most of the public.
>
> Sure, just find these few simple things that will actually improve
> security. (My personal one would be "Erase MS-Windows and install
> Ubuntu". If we are ready to inconvenience ordinary workers with
> computer security, this one would be a good start.)

As a very smart person said a couple of weeks ago when this same argument
was made: are you willing to do tech-support for my mother is she uses
linux?

        Gadi.