Re: Obama Order Sped Up Wave of Cyberattacks Against Iran

[valdis.kletnieks () vt edu]

On Sun, 10 Jun 2012 17:06:37 -0400, Laurelai said:

> I am a bit surprised by the direction of this conversation and I have
> been waiting for someone to say the obvious in regards to protecting
> yourself from .gov malware, it really is quite simple if you think about
> it. Stuxnet, duqu, flame, ect.. all only run on windows platforms. If
> the people you are protecting are concerned about that kind of malware
> (and they should be) it would be a great time to tell them about
> GNU/Linux, BSD, ect..

You *do* realize that's basically  the same logic as "Macs don't get viruses",
only  even worse security-wise.

If your threat model actually includes "attacked by state actors",  then it
should include the possibility that the team of state actors includes an OSX
jockey and a few Linux geeks.

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