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reinob	2013-06-07 , 08:43
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Originally Posted by unoace

Think about the traditional wisdom with computers and why so many people say apple is more secure then windows.

The ecosystem with less mainstream attention will have the less attention from hackers.
Windows>Apple>Linux.

With phones you will go
Apple>Andriod>The rest.
Our Meego/Maemo are pretty safe for the simple fact that its a very small community of users.

I think the question is more about real security, not in the sense of how exposed a system may be.

In fact, I submit that Maemo is probably the most insecure mobile OS. For the simple reason that about 101% (+/- 5%

of the users have rootsh installed. Meaning any program or script can simply run "sudo gainroot" and do whatever it pleases.

But then again, Maemo is Linux is Unix. User is expected to know what he's doing.

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