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Despite what you say about Mitnick, the guy has balls. If you have not
read his book you should. It is just interesting the way he could get
around people to get the information he wanted. It was interesting how
collecting one piece of innocent information at a time could be turned
into a backdoor pathway into your computer network, or bank account.
I agree. I don't know if I'd call him a genius but he had the balls and
brains to do some pretty cool stuff. Even if your not into bending and
breaking laws it's still interesting reading about him. I still think
the FBI really fucked him too.
As far as viruses go - Don't use shitty platforms like Windows, don't
let files in user directories be executable, and don't write apps, that
work with unknown files, in low level languages that tend to cause bugs
that can make apps be tricked into doing bad things such as executing
non-executable files.
For Linux systems it's amazing how much more secure things are if you
just don't let users execute anything they themselves have saved. Most
software on Linux systems, especially for novice users, is delivered in
the form of known packages from trusted sources. That takes care of most
problems especially if the system is setup to automatically install new
packages that have security fixes.
No system is secure, but some are much more secure than others.
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