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The Media Tells Us That 'Linux' is the Danger While Many Patients Die From Microsoft Windows

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Summary: Reading the media so far this week, one might be left with the impression that Linux (which turns 30 as a proprietary kernel) is somehow the least secure thing on the planet; but that seems to mostly distract from the latest epic disaster of Microsoft

Last year we published a very long story or a series of 16 detailed posts about Windows incidents in hospitals, berating the media for participating in cover-up and a misdirection instead of actual investigation, journalism, demand for answers (which can beget accountability for the culprits who put Windows inside hospitals).



Here we are one year later and Microsoft has massive security incidents every couple of months -- ones which impact millions of businesses and billions of people, costing them billion if not trillions in damages in the long run. Then we see articles which incredibly enough present Microsoft as some security leader while it lectures GNU/Linux users and claims to be some ransomware expert. They're mostly back doors experts; they have lots of experience putting back doors in things...

In the video above I go through very recent stories about "Linux" being a security issue/risk/threat (by gross misrepresentation of the brand) and today's links about hospitals becoming disaster zones because of their use of Windows.

As we put it several times last year, how many people need to die before Windows is ripped out of health-related systems and replaced by vastly more reliable and secure Free software? Windows has already killed far more people than COVID-19 and its variants killed. They're just not being counted as such.

Microsoft's mediocre and insecure-by-design computing has taken its toll in many other domains, not just health, but rarely does that generate any headlines. We just hear about how "Linux" is going to space. And there's a reason for that...

If Windows is not good enough for space missions, why should it ever be put on (or near) medical devices? Unmanned space missions put budget -- not lives -- at risk. About a decade ago IIS dumped Windows and moved to GNU/Linux after the space station got overwhelmingly infected with and overrun by Windows viruses. Out of this world...

"Our products just aren't engineered for security."

--Brian Valentine, Microsoft executive

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