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Originally Posted by CyberJet View Post
Can these things be prevented with OpenBSD, it's supposed to be the most secure OS. Why are[nt?] more people using it?
I've always held the belief that the human brain is capable of learning much, much more than a computer can (sure, a computer can retain billions of bits of data, but can a computer change how it operates by analyzing said data? Not unless it's been coded to do so by a human brain!). As such, I tend to come down heavily on people who intentionally choose to use an inferior product so they don't have to learn anything...so take this with a grain of salt.

You get what you pay for. That goes for knowledge, too. If you invest the time to learn a system, you'll be rewarded with the satisfaction of understanding it AND the satisfaction of avoiding all of the common pitfalls of that system (which, for closed source, is mostly impossible). If you take the easy way out (and in terms of knowledge, MANY people do), be prepared to pay for that decision in other ways. It's that simple.
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