Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt (FUD) and Large-scale Defamation Campaigns Remain an Issue
Fear-mongering/Dramatisation
THE sister site has just explained the context of an attack against Tux Machines. For those who didn't know or notice, the site was offline for over a day after some criminal had committed perjury and blackmailed someone (social engineering-type Denial of Service attacks legally qualify as a kind of cyberattack). This was done by lunatics behind our backs (completely, as the host asked no questions).
But this is part of broader campaigns to silence and defame Free software activists while slandering their work, however useful or factual it may be (ad hominem attacks distract from the facts).
Beware FUD! It's everywhere these days! Consider an example we posted a few minutes ago concerning this article from a GNU/Linux-hostile site. It starts with: "The threat actor known as DoNot Team has been linked to the use of a novel .NET-based backdoor called Firebird targeting a handful of victims in Pakistan and Afghanistan."
This is a classic example of Microsoft TCO, but as we've just noted, "the author then goes on to mention "Linux" 4 times as if it's a "Linux" issue..."
In IRC, psydroid took issue with the term "cyberterrorism" in the article, saying it's a misdirection "or more like shoddy software", without which any of this "cyber" something would not have been feasible.
GNU/Linux is generally secure. We ran Techrights and Tux Machines for nearly 40 years (combined) without any security incidents. Free software isn't perfect, but unlike Microsoft, it doesn't put back doors in everything (or anything). █