[Sussex] Open day outline

[Harry Rickards]

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On 05/10/09 10:25, Desmond Armstrong wrote:
> I do hope that we can get this open day off the ground because it would 
> be very useful indeed.
> If we can get some sponsorship one could even do a seminar in schools 
> and colleges to inform.
> 
>> I do get fed up with the continual upates necessary for Windows, the 
>> increasingly intrusive way that Microsoft checks up on the validity of 
>> your OS and the frequent reports of security vulnerabilities that are 
>> discovered (though I don't know how immune from these Linux is or will 
>> be in the future)
> 
> One should remember that a Windows system is essentially open for 
> malware and it is a matter of history that one has to, as a user, be 
> able to simply double click an executable and let it simply self 
> install, in other words no or very little security.
> 
> In contrast Unix is designed on 2 criteria:-
> 
> 1/ good security
> cannot install without a secure root password.
> 
> 2/ networking.
> 
> Remember Bill Gates stood up in 1992 and declared that nobody would wish 
> to use the internet?
And yet 12 years later (2004) he's still totally clueless: 'two years
from now, spam will be solved'!

> Apple changed over to a Unix model in 1996 when Steve Jobs returned to 
> company to rescue it. My comment to my colleagues at that time was 
> 'Microsoft has missed the Boat'
> 
> So fundamentally there has never been a 'virus in the wild' on a Unix or 
> Linux system ever. It is not a case of Linux is not popular so does not 
> attract viruses it really is because it is fundamentally secure by 
> design. Of course one can have limited problems in groups of machines 
> where the security is minimal but that does not amount to a 'virus in 
> the wild'.
> 
> 

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Many thanks
Harry Rickards

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