BBS:      TELESC.NET.BR
Assunto:  Re: 3.5 Floppies
De:       Dumas Walker
Data:     Wed, 25 Feb 2026 15:51:00 -0500
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> Speaking of which, that reminds me of when I was looking for jobs years ago,
> and I was at an interview where the interviewer seemed to have a dislike for
> Linux.  He said he didn't trust Linux because since it's open-source, he
> thought that meant there's a high risk of someone putting malware of some kind
> into Linux..  On the other hand, he felt that since Windows is closed-source
> and developed by a small team of people who are paid to work on it, Windows
> should be more trusted.  I suppose I can see the reasoning, though I've always
> heard that Linux being open-source is actually a strength: There are many
> people looking at the Linux code (moreso than the Windows code), and people wh
> review it to ensure that malware isn't submitted to the codebase and that
> security issues are fixed soon after they're discovered.

Now I am not sure it matters as much but, back in time when I used to hear
people say things like this interviewer did, I would likely be thinking
that there being malware in the Windows code isn't so much the problem as
there being malware written to exploit Windows code.

Nowadays, as more mission critical things are running linux, the hackers
are starting to write more malware for it also.  IIRC, there has been at
least one instance of someone getting malware/a back door/something else
not good through the review process that it got out in the wild, too.  I
can't remember which package it was now.


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