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Murphy's Corollary:
It is impossible to make anything foolproof
because fools are so ingenious
Mark Guzman -=- Liquid Synergy Designs
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On Tue, 15 Jul 1997, Dennis Roos wrote:
> On 14 Jul 97 at 18:35, Leonid wrote:
>
> > Philippe,
> >
> > That would simply mean "Welcome to 100% Linux world!"
>
> When do we start with it, 'cause I'm getting tired of all the m$
> versions of it's windoze OS...
>
> > 2 words explain this approach: "Source code"
> >
> > It's unlikely NSA would get into my system when I can eliminate their
> > backdoor code...
>
> But if the NSA doesn't... probably some hacker will... these guys are
> using Linux from day 1 just to get experience within an UNIX
> environment...
>
> Another thing about a free OS... Everyone can develop for it, thus
> you have to check _every_ source of _every_ util you wanna use,
> before installing it... and speaking for myself... I'm quite busy
> just keeping things working and secure (when possible :( )
>
There are just so many of us playing with the source, and if we do
find something thats exploitable we tell people. Also i have yet to
see anything like that occure, the kernel problems that do occure are
usualy seen in other os's. One last note about freely availible os's
and source code availibility, it allows people to be able to edit and
fix problems when they find them and do it quickly. But thats just my
opinion and its based on my experience with Linux and FreeBSD.
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