Thread: Security on Nits?
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2008-04-18 , 15:36
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Originally Posted by brontide View Post
Of course the keylogger could just use the web or mail to export the data. A firewall is virtually useless for stopping outgoung data.
Assuming you're talking abouut Windows: that assumes that the keylogger could get control of the browser or mail package. This cold happen as the result of a flaw in implementation of the same, but there's a difference between an obscure flaw which gets patched, and an OS which has no security at all by design. If you're talking about maemo: yes.

Reallistically it's not worth the time... even code that subverted 50% of the NIT's thats still less systems than code that subverted .001% of the windows boxen out there.
That assumes that subverting those .001% of Windows boxes is equally easy. For reasons already addressed, it isn't. Even unsecured PC's are protected by information passed on from secured ones.