Umm.. no it doesn’t.
It’s the fact that Linux is based on the UNIX system and most ‘hackers’ can’t be bothered with hacking a system that hardly anyone uses.
When Linux’s market share gets above 10%, then maybe you’ll see more hackers.
Until then, having no password isn’t going to open it up to any viruses, because there aren’t any. YET!
And please don’t lecture me about password and viruses.
I was programming computers long before Windows, on DOS and CP/M, MP/M based machines and when ‘modems’ were nothing more that ‘Acoustic couplers’ you put your phone receiver on.
I’m not a neophyte when it comes to computers.
It’s the fact that Linux is based on the UNIX system and most ‘hackers’ can’t be bothered with hacking a system that hardly anyone uses.
When Linux’s market share gets above 10%, then maybe you’ll see more hackers.
Until then, having no password isn’t going to open it up to any viruses, because there aren’t any. YET!
You might want to look up the "witty worm" on google. It was designed to attack a userbase of approximately 50,000 worldwide. Marketshare is not nearly as big a hurdle for viruses as some would like for us to believe.
The fact is, unix (which includes OSX as well) has a better design than windows from the ground up which makes it less succeptable to all kinds of attacks.