Re: is there any Windows virus that affect linux?

From	"x9p" <debian@x9p.org>
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Subject	Re: is there any Windows virus that affect linux?
Date	2017-12-13 12:40 +0100
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On Wed, December 13, 2017 6:17 am, tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:
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> If they target *you* individually, yes, they have cheaper means at
> their disposal. That's called "rubber hose cryptanalysis"[1] -- not
> pretty. Or, as Schneier put it "the NSA is better at breaking knuckles
> than at breaking codes".
>
> Still, for an attack of the Natanz type, they seem to have picked
> the Stuxnet way, and you and me might end up as collaterals.

so true.

> [1] Or, as XKCD puts it, in a similarly charming way, "$5 wrench
> cryptanalysis"
>    <https://www.xkcd.com/538/>

I luv that comic :)

cheers.

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is there any Windows virus that affect linux? Long Wind <longwind2@yahoo.com> - 2017-12-12 01:00 +0100
  Re: is there any Windows virus that affect linux? Dan Purgert <dan@djph.net> - 2017-12-12 03:50 +0100
    Re: is there any Windows virus that affect linux? Anil Duggirala <anilduggirala@fastmail.fm> - 2017-12-12 10:50 +0100
      Re: is there any Windows virus that affect linux? <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2017-12-12 11:10 +0100
        Re: is there any Windows virus that affect linux? Anil Duggirala <anilduggirala@fastmail.fm> - 2017-12-12 11:20 +0100
          Re: is there any Windows virus that affect linux? <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2017-12-12 11:30 +0100
        Re: is there any Windows virus that affect linux? "x9p" <debian@x9p.org> - 2017-12-13 01:30 +0100
          Re: is there any Windows virus that affect linux? tomas@tuxteam.de - 2017-12-13 09:20 +0100
            Re: is there any Windows virus that affect linux? "x9p" <debian@x9p.org> - 2017-12-13 12:40 +0100
            Re: is there any Windows virus that affect linux? Jeroen Mathon <jeroenmathonmac@gmail.com> - 2017-12-13 13:20 +0100
              Re: is there any Windows virus that affect linux? Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2017-12-13 17:50 +0100
                Re: is there any Windows virus that affect linux? <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2017-12-13 18:40 +0100
                Re: is there any Windows virus that affect linux? "x9p" <debian@x9p.org> - 2017-12-14 02:50 +0100
            Re: is there any Windows virus that affect linux? John Hasler <jhasler@newsguy.com> - 2017-12-13 17:40 +0100

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