Goehring, Chuck, RCI - San Diego wrote:
I post here for lack of a better place. Sorry in advance to anyone offended.
I was speaking to an acquaintance that has a security background and she told me her company prohibits the use of "Free" software because there is no guarantee that there are no "backdoors" in it.
She's probably talking about all the "free" wondows crap that does spyware and stuff.
Has anyone successfully dealt with this problem, or seen authoritative opinions on the subject?
Sure, don't use free programs that you don't have the source to.
If you use "Free" open source products then you can freely look at exactly what the program is doing and know if it doing any bad.
Besides that, dump windows - its not free but it's the bugiest most insecure computer product available.
