Hackers reportedly broke into the Cheong Wa Dae computer network in February and stole classified documents from the National Security Council (NSC). Shockingly, they used a worm that infected the desktop PC of a NSC employee.
Well, Cheong Wa Dae, it’s only one more day until Ubuntu releases version 8.04.
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That is only part of the story. This Roh Administration official used a portable USB memory stick to move his personal confidential files onto and off the machine at work, thus infecting the local network there. If the guy was doing such *private* work that he was afraid of someone else in government finding out about, then what the hell was this guy doing!?
This sort of thing is a weakness because many bums that do work that they do not want leave lying around put their “secret” work onto USB sticks so that if their company is raided by prosecutors (for example), they will not find incriminating files.
They should still switch to Linux.
This is why the USB ports on desktop PCs ought to be locked down by network administrators. If you need to transfer files by USB key, bring it to the network admin to copy the files into the network server.
#3, then what would they do with their Sports day gifts?
Ubuntu is pretty nice, but using it every day is giving me new respect for the many aspects of Windows which are dead simple to use. Right now Ubuntu is still for nerds, not for regular people as its boosters claim.
Mac OS X really is dead simple to use.
For example, its security vulnerabilities?
Seriously, though, what do you find particularly difficult to do in Ubuntu?
There are three things which should never be mentioned or discussed in polite society: Religion, Politics, and Operating Systems.
Using the command-line/terminal in Ubuntu is a major pain. It’s a bit ridiculous in 2008 for programs to be command-line only or for nice functions to only be accessible that way. The commands you have to put in there are intimidating to me and for an average user they would be downright terrifying. Manually installing fonts in Ubuntu can be a fucking nightmare, and nobody even pretends otherwise. A lot of the documentation out there is for obsolete versions. And the “synaptic package manager” — good idea, needs a new name because there is no way my mom would ever touch something called that. It sounds like a medical procedure.