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nostrich · 7w
I suspect the opposite is more likely to be true. Linux’s ecosystem diversity (so many distros) and added feature bloat (complexity) can increase the attack surface, and AI may amplify the rate at w...
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I mean, Linux servers are kind of the backbone of the internet. If any OS has been hardened through battle testing, it's Linux. Pretty much trusted as the industry standard. No?

Desktop environments might introduce additional attack surface. But, similarly Gnome and KDE have been there since the beginning.

Ever listen to Security Now? Pretty much every episode has Steve GIbson is rattling off some terrible vulnerability in Windows. Nobody ever hears about it.
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nostrich · 6w
I agree wrt Windows. For me, no Windows, ever. But, I think there is a general false sense of security everywhere else too. Very, very little development is designed from security up. We are now reaching the phase where open source LLMs are on par with frontier models for coding and exploit. This wi...