[ Thanks to BeOpen for
this link. ]
“For security-conscious IT managers, choosing between Linux
and Windows NT is like a return trip to the Garden of
Eden.“
“On the one hand, you’ve got the blissful ignorance of trusting
your company’s security to the proprietary Windows NT operating
system. That is, until some university student exposes that
ignorance by uploading a Visual Basic script in between
classes.”
“On the other hand, those who partake of the fruit of the open
source tree pay a price for their knowledge. Visit any Linux trade
show and chances are the biggest seminar will be devoted to
security experts and sysadmins discussing the pleasures of plowing
through BugTraq advisories and IRC transcripts in 24-by-7 effort to
stay one step ahead of the black hat crackers….”
“With security concerns rising in the open source community,
BeOpen recently interviewed two developers who have taken two very
different approaches to addressing those concerns. Tom Vogt is a
lead developer of Nexus, a “maximum security” Linux distribution
unveiled on May 9. Theo DeRaadt is leader of the OpenBSD project, a
BSD offshoot that has built a reputation as one of the most secure
“out of the box” operating systems in the world. We asked both of
them about open source security issues and how they deal with
them.”