NSA targets Linux Journal as 'extremist forum': Report

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50. I get the feeling some people just aren't getting it.

Linux is a UNIX based kernel for an operating system. It's more secure, more stable, less crackable, and faster than either of the easily broken, less stable, slower, commonly sold systems. Supercomputers run Linux because of all the above and it's likely NSA run their own version of it themselves. Apple also runs BSD UNIX but it's loaded with proprietary software and makes it only a play thing. Linux is huge in most of the world and has been for some years. It is growing extremely fast in the US because of it's utility to the average user and it's advantages when science calls.

NSA can hack anything M$ or MA¢ very easily. All encrypted email and web data is more difficult to crack than unencrypted no matter what the computer source. But hacking a Linux machine is much more difficult if not impossible under exceptional circumstances. That's why those in the know desire it. The NSA would love for people to use the big 2 computer company's hardware because they can mash it like a bug.

It all goes to show why the NSA wants people to fear the system that is the most innately secure up front, discouraging the use of the system that is their biggest nightmare.