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:Linux-Watch: Face It: Linux is Insecure
Linux-Watch: Face It: Linux is Insecure
Jun 6, 2006, 01 :45 UTC (4 Talkback[s]) (8340 reads)

(Other stories by Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols)

[ Thanks to Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols for this link. ]

"Linux is insecure. Open source is insecure. Windows is insecure. All software is insecure.

"Deal with it.

"People keep having this delusion that security is a product. That, if you just buy some magic box, you'll have a program or an operating system that's as secure as Fort Knox..."

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Security is a process - a process that r ...   Security is a process   
Joe Almeida
Jun 6, 2006, 03:08:53
 
and while Linux security gaffs are fewer ...   A sane look at OS security....   
GreyGeek
Jun 6, 2006, 03:19:45
 
I know they are much smaller than those  ...   I'll have OSS's insecurities thanks   
wildpossum
Jun 6, 2006, 04:02:07
 
At least with open source you know that  ...   open source security   
geoff lane
Jun 6, 2006, 06:40:21
 
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