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Conficker's Not A Blessing For Linux
In the last few days before the Conficker worm's alleged conquest of the known world on April 1, a bunch of Linux and open source blogs have <a href="http://jakedth.tumblr.com/post/91483836/conficker-gnu-linuxs-way-to-mainstream">ruminated</a> about the possibility that this would be another nail in the Windows coffin. See? Windows is horribly insecure! Linux is not! Watch people defect from Windows in droves! ... And that silence you hear is me trying hard not to die laughing. </p>
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In the last few days before the Conficker worm's alleged conquest of the known world on April 1, a bunch of Linux and open source blogs have ruminated about the possibility that this would be another nail in the Windows coffin. See? Windows is horribly insecure! Linux is not! Watch people defect from Windows in droves! ... And that silence you hear is me trying hard not to die laughing.
Let's take this one apart piece by piece.
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