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No, Linux security comes from the fact that its highly decentralized (there are hundreds of distros) and that very few users use Linux. It's more rewarding to write exploits for a centralized OS which is used by hundreds of millions of users (like winxp).
Also, Linux is a server OS, always have been: and surprisingly, most hacked servers have Linux on them.
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Yes, a wrongly configured linux machine is just as easy to hack as a wrongly configured windows machine.
Besides not that long ago in linux you could have fun with this program
while(true)
fork( "thisProg" )
took about 1 sec to crash the uni. linux machines with that
