Writerro t1_iuh0z6f wrote on October 31, 2022 at 7:29 AM

Reply to comment by frakc in ELI5: Why are computers more vulnerable to hackers than phones? by TeaTime7079

> linux problems are much less known, because it became popular relatively recently and some thing maynot be found yet.

Not true. Linux was very populary for a loooong long time. But not on a customer devices but on routers, servers et cetera where often it is much more popular than Windows. So there was an incentive to find bugs and exploits in linux/unix operating systems for a long time. And I would argue that it's easier to find them in linux because it is open source.

frakc t1_iuh13p0 wrote on October 31, 2022 at 7:31 AM

Where it was mostly in embeded forms, with greatly reduced features, which hackers could exploit.

Writerro t1_iuh4dt5 wrote on October 31, 2022 at 8:22 AM

Linux on servers is not in embedded form, but fully functional, with every feature that regular desktop PC can have, if not more :)

It is the other way if anything - linux on android phones have reduced features available to user, because of permissions et cetera. That's why it's harder to hack android phone, because people there are not installing packages, but using Google play, people there have no root access et cetera.