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DATE | 2005-06-07 |
FROM | Ruben Safir
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SUBJECT | Re: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] Device Drivers Filled With Flaws, Threaten
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If the core Kernel is secure, how are they going to gain access to the device drivers.
Ruben On Tue, 2005-06-07 at 11:40, Billy wrote: > Ruben Safir wrote: > > On Mon, 2005-06-06 at 17:03, Inker, Evan wrote: > > > >>OK, Please can someone explain why Novell's Director of Software Engineering > >>make the following statement publicly: > > > > > > > > Because he opposes the move into the GNU/Linux sphere. It seems pretty > > obvious. MS drivers secure? Please. Linux drivers not secure and poor > > quality, please don't make me sick. The pool of programmers in both > > cases largely suck, but I'd rather trust Donald Beckers Eth0 drivers to > > the paid minions of 3Comm land any day. > > I'd say that MOST of my WinXP drivers have not been verified by MSFT QA. > XP gives me a warning about the driver, and I still NEED the driver, > so I click "OK" and that's the end of it. > > > And you know what, how do you audit code that is closed like the moronic > > patent protected NVideo systems. > > I guess you don't. So the free drivers have been subject to analysis > which the nonfree drivers have not been subject to. To say the free > drivers are less secure is therefore disingenuous. We can't simply > compare MSFT's QA lab tests to the automated free driver security audit > and expect to draw meaningful conclusions. > > > Maybe Billy can shed light on this. > > Maybe.
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