21 Security
UNIX was not designed with security in mind, and for that reason no UNIX system can be made truly secure. Throughout history, UNIX systems have regularly been broken into, beaten, brutalized, corrupted, commandeered, compromised, and illegally fscked. The Internet has made things even worse.
There are some steps you can take to make your system somewhat more resistant to attack. Even so, several fundamental flaws in the UNIX model ensure that you will never reach security nirvana:
• UNIX is optimized for convenience and doesn’t make security easy or natural. UNIX was designed by researchers, for researchers, and its philosophy ...
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