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In this recent Yahoo! article they are stating that netbooks are inherintley insecure because they are cheap.

Such a bullshit article.  It does have some facts right about the whole thing.  But the generalization that they are insecure by virtue of being cheap is ridiculous.  The only thing that makes a system secure is the software that runs on it.  So if you have a firewall and anti-virus or something then its just as secure as my 4000 dollar workstation here at work.

They also miss the point that a lot of them run linux which is much more secure than Windows right out of the box!  Some intrepid user, like me, are running OSX, which is also a more secure OS out of the box than Windows as well.  Please do not flame, I’m not a mac fanboy.  It’s just fact.

Certainly there is some validity to the statement regarding “low-end” users.  This is true simply because the most dangerous thing to a computer is it’s user.  Unknowingly clicking links and popups and opening emails and attachments is still the real danger.

Way to go mainstream scare tactics.