Marketing Companies (Disguised as News Sites) Badmouth Linux, Go, Monero and More

Dr. Roy Schestowitz

2021-01-12 00:12:01 UTC
Modified: 2021-01-12 02:28:07 UTC

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Summary: Another day, another shallow piece associating "Linux" with security risks based on something that has nothing to do with GNU/Linux and generally boils to nothing like a real threat (unlike Windows back doors)

THE so-called 'tech' media (or so-called 'news' sites) aren't quite what they seem. The above is one typical example. A culmination of several recent "dark PR" campaigns against Go(Lang) and likely Monero as well as Linux have led to this 'all-in-one' FUD piece which we mentioned in our latest Daily Links. Looks like Trend Micro marketing. Like Infosecurity, they're calling a whole bunch of Windows threats "Linux" and pretend that just because someone out there can write a malicious program and users can run that program (or misconfigure a system to allow remote access) it makes Go and Linux (or even Monero) dangerous. The code is hosted by Microsoft by the way. ⬆

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Marketing Companies (Disguised as News Sites) Badmouth Linux, Go, Monero and More

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