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As mentioned yesterday, there's a bunch of Microsoft-friendly FUD in various sites; it encourages the Microsoft way of thinking and it is constantly offloading blame (or guilt) onto everyone but Microsoft.
The associate who noticed this trend spotted yet another example of nonsense meriting rebuttals ("Why Take9 Will Not Improve Cybersecurity" by Pixel Envy) and said that Microsoft products are not fit for purpose and distraction through blaming the victim will not change that one bit. Blind trust in proprietary systems is for chumps.
Hours ago I saw another example of false alarm or hype about bugs in Linux. I added it with an editorial (Ed) comment at the bottom of this list.
They keep trying to sell us false solutions and blaming the victims, not the perpetrators and their enablers, which include Microsoft.
GNU/Linux is a stable and reliable OS. An hour ago my main laptop passed 600 days of uptime.
19:17:57 up 600 days, 1:02, 38 users, load average: 0.37, 0.46, 0.63
I didn't even notice this until someone brought it up in IRC and I responded with:
roy@vonick:~$ uptime 15:20:13 up 599 days, 21:05, 38 users, load average: 0.29, 0.23, 0.27
Sites that want to promote security ought to deal with the biggest issues, such as Windows having back doors. It is not by accident. █