> kebabber wrote: > "Could this scenario with NSA also be valid with Solaris 10?" > > No, no and to be clear no it is not a valid scenario with Solaris. > > Without getting into some of the issues with your source material, there is > a real problem with this idea, and it's a pretty simple one. > > Any sort of access like that is going to leave a system open to whatever Bad > Guys are out there, and would cause a massive loss of trust on the part of > customers who value their privacy too. In order to be able to use Solaris in > sensitive government or industry functions, there would have to be more than > one version of the OS. In order to deploy this imaginary second version, too > many people would have to know about it, and this would raise too many > questions to be kept secret. > > Solaris is open source, you can go look yourself to confirm that this is not > the case.
minor nit. Solaris is not open source. BeleniX is. SchilliX is. The project Indiana stuff is. OpenSolaris is a place to get the sources. Solaris is not open source or we wouldn't have big piles of close sourced bits still. Heck, I don't know if Indiana stuff is actually open source or not. I have not gone digging. Dennis _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
