The Sony Breach Demonstrates the Importance of Moving Beyond Perimeter Defense

Re:The Sony Breach Demonstrates the Importance of Moving Bey... by maccard on Wednesday January 07, 2015 @12:43PM (#8851903)

> I can send someone an EXE that they can double click and install and I'm in. On Linux, that's much more rare of an occurrence.

I can do that with linux binaries too? The difference is that a Windows user is more likely to install untrusted software.

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Re:The Sony Breach Demonstrates the Importance of Moving Bey... by marcosdumay on Wednesday January 07, 2015 @03:11PM (#8852959)

You can not get a Linux executable from the network. You can only give a file execution permission after it's local.

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Re:The Sony Breach Demonstrates the Importance of Moving Bey... by freehunter on Wednesday January 07, 2015 @01:11PM (#8852119)

True it's possible. Which is why I said it's not impossible. But it's very rare to find Linux binaries, especially Linux binaries that are not distro-specific. It's much harder to throw an infected binary at a user when you need to know more about them than "they run Windows 7".

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Re:The Sony Breach Demonstrates the Importance of Moving Bey... by maccard on Thursday January 08, 2015 @06:53AM (#8855986)

I wonder if I post on HN/proggit about my cool new ruby project, and start it off with curl | sh, but put something malicious, how many people will blindly install it?

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