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I wanted a rude username:
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Halcyon:

--- Quote from: Refrigerator on March 14, 2020, 10:34:52 am ---Just make sure your PC doesn't get any viruses from those flash drives, i've seen videos where they have no memory at all and just dump malware into your PC for whatever reason.

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Oh, they won't be getting plugged into my machine. They will be going into a lab environment.

Either way, I run Linux so the risk is low.
Fred27:

--- Quote from: Halcyon on March 15, 2020, 12:52:12 am ---Either way, I run Linux so the risk is low.

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Obviously the most important thing with any OS is not to do something daft, but don't let your OS choice give you a false sense of security.
https://www.linux.com/news/debian-linux-was-the-most-vulnerable-operating-system-in-the-last-20-years/
exe:

--- Quote from: Fred27 on March 15, 2020, 01:43:15 pm ---
--- Quote from: Halcyon on March 15, 2020, 12:52:12 am ---Either way, I run Linux so the risk is low.

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Obviously the most important thing with any OS is not to do something daft, but don't let your OS choice give you a false sense of security.
https://www.linux.com/news/debian-linux-was-the-most-vulnerable-operating-system-in-the-last-20-years/

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Just in case, the link is a typical deliberate misinformation from MS marketing department ("get the facts", etc). The way the calculate the number of vulns is the following. They take all the packages available in standard debian distribution (which is tens of thousands), and sum all the vulnerabilities from all the packages, which is nonsense.

A "fair" comparison for windows would be to sum all the vulns from all the programs in the windows store. Or, better, don't use such bullshit metrics at all.

PS this comparison is kept reposted from year to year (with number updated, but essentially it's the same report). I first such reported showed up around 7-10 ago after somebody posted a research in that redhat was portrayed as much more secure OS (in terms of number of vulns) comparing to windows server (just in case, I don't say it was a fair comparison either). Then MS started campaign to recover their reputation, including many payed "analytics" that was showing how windows is secure and that total cost of ownership is cheaper comparing to linux.
wraper:

--- Quote from: exe on March 15, 2020, 10:16:10 pm ---Just in case, the link is a typical deliberate misinformation from MS marketing department ("get the facts", etc).

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Just in case provide any proof this report has anything to do with Microsoft. Or methodology of how vulnerabilities were counted.
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