OK, next time a penguin head (like me) is bleeting on about the merits of Linux versus any other OS in the universe, take it with a pinch of salt - Linux has security scares too, you know!
A Linux bug was recently uncovered by a young Norwegian programmer that, when exploited by a simple C program, could crash most Linux 2.4 or 2.6 distributions running on an x86 architecture. "Using this exploit to crash Linux systems requires the (ab)user to have shell access or other means of uploading and running the program—like cgi-bin and FTP access," reports the discoverer, Øyvind Sæther.
Are we going to get a Linux virus next? Read on here.
You might need to invest in a norwegian motherboard to figure out how to spell your name (using ascii codes is such a hassle),and have a bit of problem with the government computer bases, but aside from that I don't see any problems with the idea.
And if you can manage to add an 'å' into your name, you'd be way l33tEr than Øyving Sæther
Also, don't forget Jon Lech Johansen doesn't have any special characters, and he helped to create deCSS & the iTunes format....
