No need for AV tools on Linux, eh?

[Alan Cox]

> The real issue is two fold:
> 
> 1. The vast number of compute systems across the Internet that are not 
> managed at all.
> 
> 2. The inability of platform creators to consider security as a priority.

This is driven by economic realities

- Users don't understand what poor security costs them so won't pay
  for it

- The legal system is curiously lax when it comes to software and people
  get away both with contractual opt-outs no physical device maker could
  and end users somehow manage to dodge all sorts of liabilities for
  carelessness on their part they couldn't with a car

- Most users aren't able to tell good and bad security (the lemon problem)

- Particularly in business the users don't actually care about security
  or taking insecure actions. It's not *their* problem if the hotel front
  desk gets a virus because they installed games on it.

As with most things - if you want to fix it make it more expensive not to
do so than to fix it, the rest then just happens.

Alan