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| DATE | 2004-09-03 |
| FROM | From: "Steve Milo"
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| SUBJECT | Re: [hangout] Re: Advocacy vs. Zealotry vs. Who Cares?!?
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On Fri, 03 Sep 2004 13:31:05 -0400, Ron Guerin wrote
> Billy wrote:
>
> > I apologize.. That was a TERRIBLE link... It only included
> >
> >vulns in the OSVDB containing the word "Red Hat", which isn't
> >really a good way to identify vulns in Linux kernels or apps.
> >Most of the really BIG vulnerabilities didn't appear on the list,
> >and I didn't really review it before sending it off...
> >
> >Look, last week I got an advisory that anyone running Qt-3.3
> >could wind up run arbitrary code by viewing a malicious JPG.
> >
> >CVS is full of holes. SSH holes happen all the time.
> >
> >This stuff happens all the time, and it's usually fixed quickly.
> >But people just DON'T UPDATE what they believe to be their
> >'totally impenetrable' Linux machines, because they believe the
> >machines are bulletproof. They aren't.
> >
> Thank you sir, for yet again speaking the unpopular truth.
> One of these days real soon now, all this asinine talk on the 'net about
> how GNU/Linux boxes are inpenetrable and there's "nothing to worry about"
> is going to bite us on the ass and these people that say these things
> won't be the ones stuck cleaning up the mess.
Good, better sooner rather than later. GNU/Linux has been riding on the
coattails of popularity long enough. Its time the community'(or the companys
making the distros) got their collective ass in gear and started pushing this
thing. If Novell or HP dont push Suse or a better distro on the desktop then
they lack the intestinal fortitude required to compete.
If it fuels an industry that creates a stabler and simlarly free alternative
to microsofts monopoly so much the better. Then perhaps ´Computer Scientists´
would have earned their lofty title.
But the fact of the matter is that GNU/Linux is more secure and stabler than
microsoft. Look at all the apps that come with a GNU/Linux distro, look at
all those choices. You couldnt run that many different applications on a
windows machine. An ms box would choke.
Steve M
> Once people find out they've been mislead and lied to, getting their
> trust back (think the boss who has the final say on new systems)
> will be twice as hard as getting it the first time was.
>
> - Ron
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