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DeusExLinux

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Registered: 2005-03-18

Posts: 98

Linux Sercurity? Basic Newbie info, good read

Will Vista on the horizon, with promises with better security.  I wonder if this article is as relevent.  Nontheless, newbies and oldies alike, I found a pretty cool article which might clear up some questions in the security between Linux and Windows.

Newbies eat it up.  It'll anwer a lot of questions about basic Linux and Windows security thaty ou might have, while debunking a few urban legends....take that MythBusters.

read here:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/security/s … _vs_linux/

Lone_Wolf

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From: Netherlands, Europe

Registered: 2005-10-04

Posts: 13,259

Re: Linux Sercurity? Basic Newbie info, good read

Thanks for the link, it' s a great article that gives good insight in the differences between linux and windows.

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DeusExLinux

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Registered: 2005-03-18

Posts: 98

Re: Linux Sercurity? Basic Newbie info, good read

Anytime.

I thought it might help clear some questions in the long run for those newbies to Linux/Arch who actually use the search function!

brain0

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From: Aachen - Germany

Registered: 2005-01-03

Posts: 1,382

Re: Linux Sercurity? Basic Newbie info, good read

Didn't read the whole thing yet, but I found a little mistake:

In contrast, bugs in graphics card drivers are a common cause of the Windows blue-screen-of-death. That's because Windows integrates graphics into the kernel, where a bug can cause a system failure. With only a few proprietary exceptions (such as the third-party NVidia graphics driver), Linux forces all graphics drivers to run outside the kernel.

This is not entirely true. First of all, the X Server itself has to have the setuid bit set to gain admin privileges at some point and access the graphics hardware directly. While this should not crash the machine, a flaw in the X Server itself may be exploited to execute malicious code with root privileges.
Second, the DRI infrastructure in Xorg has a kernel backend (DRM), which has to be accessible by the user in order to use direct rendering. A bug in the DRM driver could theoretically be exploited, because the kernel itself is monolithic (as explained in the document).

test1000

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Registered: 2005-04-03

Posts: 834

Re: Linux Sercurity? Basic Newbie info, good read

and everyone knows that X hard-crashes the machine every time the ATI fglrx driver crashes when switching back & forth to fb and the like..

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DeusExLinux

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Registered: 2005-03-18

Posts: 98

Re: Linux Sercurity? Basic Newbie info, good read

True.

Overall, there are some fallicies, but I think this is part of a greater argument that is never going to be 100% true.  ever.

mh3rn4nd3z3

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From: USA

Registered: 2010-07-02

Posts: 50

Re: Linux Sercurity? Basic Newbie info, good read

lol. this thread is really old, but I dug up using the search query "monolithic", since I've been doing some research on kernel architecture.

My question is... why do Linux machines reset their uptime at 497 days?

thanks

Inxsible

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From: Chicago

Registered: 2008-06-09

Posts: 9,183

Re: Linux Sercurity? Basic Newbie info, good read

This thread is really really old. You are probably better off getting starting a new thread for your issues/questions

Read the part about necro bumping on the Forum Etiquettes from my sig.

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