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To: Frederick Smart who wrote (28052)	9/10/1999 12:37:00 AM
From: Bearded One	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42771

1) Load Linux on your machine. All the kernel level code that you can't get to in MS and Mac is readily accessable in UNIX. You have control over how you communicate with other computers. People tend to assume that Unix is more secure than Windows. Theoretically, yes, but practically, it requires a high level of systems expertise. I once was privy to an entire network being compromised because one person misconfigured his Linux box. This allowed someone from outside to install a packet sniffer on his machine which then read passwords being sent through his system by other users. And the guy who misconfigured his box was no dummy. New methods of breaking various systems are discovered very frequently--weekly or monthly. As they are discovered, people come up with fixes to them. There are various mailing lists which cover these things. The difference between Unix/Linux and Windows is that the patches happen more frequently because of open source systems. HOWEVER, this is far from saying that Unix/Linux is secure.