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.
Kitch, is “bullshit” a technical term?
Just wanted to applaud you for your increased blogging activity lately! Keep up the good ranting work.
I hate commenting software that doesn’t accommodate HTML, or more precisely doesn’t tell you what HTML it will or will not accommodate. The word “ranting” in my previous comment was coded like this (w/o the spaces of course):
ranting
which would have been funny and cute (much like myself) had it rendered correctly!
There’s my rant for the day!
Thanks John. I have to admit that a recent surge in visitors has me feeling obligated to keep it up.
Also, I must thank Abby for feeding me the link to rant on.
Bullshit is totally technical. I have a whole book of them. Everything technical must consist of cursing and acronyms!
“… combined with low computing power and relative lack of sophistication among their users …” That’s a little insulting. In my experience, anyone willing to try a netbook is MORE sophisticated.
This article reads like a plant from someone with a vested interest in seeing netbooks fail. Is it because, most often, the most useful and appropriate OS for a netbook is open source?
That article is trash.
Totally agreed ocell. Which is why I had to at least take a brief moment to point out it’s shortcomings. Kinda ridiculous.