On Tuesday 10 January 2006 05:35, Ken Kriesel wrote: > Given how things have changed on the Internet in the past 10 years, > the next version of the primenet server should be written by a paranoid > genius checking for buffer overflows & illegal input at every turn. > Many paranoid geniuses. And the less they trust each other the better.
This is a good argument for using FLOSS (free licence open source software) as much as possible. The points being (a) since source code is fully open to scrutiny, problems can be researched by many people - there are more white hats than black hats out there; (b) issues which are detected tend to be fixed PDQ in comparison with similar issues in proprietary software. Regards Brian Beesley _______________________________________________ Prime mailing list [email protected] http://hogranch.com/mailman/listinfo/prime
