Comments on: Zen Habits spammed

By: Ken Girard

Ken Girard — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 17:23:02 +0000

Which is more secure: A house with a hundred unlocked windows, or just one?
How many windows does the burgler need to open to get in? Just one.

By: Piankeshaw

Piankeshaw — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 13:01:25 +0000

I was basing my comments on a recent hacking contest where it took 2 minutes to hack into a laptop with OS X and the Ubuntu laptop took 3 days to hack into and was the last one standing. link: http://www.pocket-lint.co.uk/news/news.phtml/13702/14726/http://www.pocket-lint.co.uk/news/news.phtml/13702/14726/Ubuntu-laptops-wins-hacking-contest.phtmlUbuntu-laptops
-wins-hacking-contest.phtml

By: jim

jim — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 18:42:44 +0000

leo – don’t know if you’re aware of this but there are a bunch of iframed pages on zenhabits that are in the index for unrelated terms.

zenhabits.net/index.php?p=free-credit-card-offers

By: Johannes

Johannes — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 14:13:59 +0000

What a strange coincidence. Just yesterday I thumbed through the latest Symantec internet security threat report and found the following note:

In the Asia Pacific/Japan (AP J) region, Guam was the highest ranked country for malicious activity per
broadband subscriber, with 39 percent.

So you seem to live on dangerous territory, Leo.

By: Brian C.

Brian C. — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 13:56:51 +0000

This may also be relevent as this can cause you to be de-listed from Google. http://bokardo.com/archives/you-didnt-come-here-from-google/

By: Leo

Leo — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 06:50:55 +0000

@piankeshaw: The site isn’t hosted on OSX … it’s hosted on a linux distro.

By: dk

dk — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 04:59:06 +0000

Hey Leo,
I have never seen your site before amazingly. It was worth getting my site hacked with the links to your site just to find it! :)

As most of you know, the real underlying problem I believe was that both Leo and myself had not updated our wordpress install to 2.5.

Much Love,
dk

By: Scott W.

Scott W. — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 04:38:31 +0000

@Piankeshaw – I also use Ubuntu :) It works really well, and I do agree that it does sync well with this site.

But I disagree with you saying that OS X is a very insecure system.

I read an article at one point in time that said an OS being Windows or OS X or Linux alone does not decides if it’s a secure OS. This makes perfect sense. Although I do agree that the open source idea does provide more security, there isn’t any evidence that suggest it’s more secure.

If a statistic were to say Windows was less secure than OS X or Linux, I would say “Why do you think this?”. If the response was anything related to the number of viruses that windows is infected with compared to the number of viruses that linux or OS X is infected with, I would give that person a hit on the head.

The problem with that statistic is that it doesn’t say Windows is more vulnerable, it says that it has MANY MANY more enemies then Linux or OS X

# of Virus’s for Windows is MUCH higher than the number of viruses written for linux.

If the numbers for those two were about even would the statistic change? No doubt.

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 01:33:09 +0000

@Piankeshaw – not to derail this but OSX itself is not really any less secure than Linux itself, let alone the various distributions of Linux like Ubuntu or Redhat. They all have security issues and bugs with varying response times to fix it. OSX is also built upon the Darwin core, which is an open source licensed BSD/Mach relative.

By: Piankeshaw

Piankeshaw — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 01:29:06 +0000

Hey!! I have noted that in previous blogs that you state that you are a devoted Mac user. OS X is one of the most insecure operating systems out there. I would recommend Ubuntu which is a Linux distro. Ubuntu is absolutely free and is much better than Windows or OS X. It also has a great collaborative philosophy that is in sync with Zen Habits. Check it out at http://www.ubuntu.com I’ve been Microsoft-free for years and better for it.