Linux-Watch: Face It: Linux is Insecure | Linux Today

Linux-Watch: Face It: Linux is Insecure

Written By
SJV
Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
Jun 6, 2006

[ 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…”

Complete
Story

SJV

Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols

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