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taw9 on Sept 13, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Obama Admin Pursuing Executive Order to Enact CISP...

Modern cybersecurity threats generally involve (1) legions of zombie computers and (2) weak native OS security.

"No Windows = No Problem" is not an overstatement. The fact that we have nuclear power plants running on Windows in this country is abso-fucking-lutely terrifying.

yuhong on Sept 16, 2012 [–]

What is exactly wrong with Windows itself that leads to these problems? And even if there is, it doesn't mean that it is as simple as that.

taw9 on Sept 16, 2012 | [–]

Do you run your Windows box without virus protection?

yuhong on Sept 19, 2012 | | [–]

Most of these attacks are targeted attacks and antivirus wouldn't have helped.

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