While browsing the internet this morning I came along the website waarschuwingsdienst.nl (National Alerting Service) which is being run by a Dutch governmental agency called GovCert. Their aim is to bring the latest news about viruses, security flaws and providing a (huge) amount of information to the public.

After clicking around a few times I decided to search for the keyword "linux", just to see what information they have about my beloved OS. The first result (yes, It even found results) that got my attention was "My Operating System is safer than yours!" . Well, I'm going to translate the first part to share the fun:

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Computer users are just like real humans, they are full of prejudices:\

• Windows users? Stupid people who are only able to point and click, especially on paperclips and dogs.
• Apple users? Fundamentalists! Blind of love for there PC, sorry, Mac. When a device isn't curved, soft colored and it's name isn't prefixed with an i, it's not going to enter their property!
• Linux users? Contact-disturbed nerds that are not able to interact socially with other people. If they even get children they are mostly raised in two languages: Dutch and C++.

There are also enough prejudices about operating systems:\

• Linux? Very difficult, only typing all day, but very secure. Nothing that can fail!
• Mac OS X? Unbreakable, absolutely safe. There are no existing viruses for the Mac. With Mac OS X you don't even have to worry about digital safety.
• Windows? Filled with bullet holes. Actually hard to imagine that there are people out there still using it. You can better rent your pc to a criminal. Connect it to the internet and it's infected.

Read on...(Yes that's indeed Dutch and not understandable for most human beings)

So yes, that's how our government officials write about Linux users. Sure, it's just an prejudice they are describing, but still, a bit odd to read on a gov. website, don't you think? Happily the rest of the article is very clear and explains very good how to use and what operating systems actually are though still not understandable for the average human.

So that's the blogging for today, now let's resume work on SpreadKDE and other things I still had to do.