On Tue, Nov 14, 2000 at 12:02:40PM -0800, Ryan Russell wrote:
> On Tue, 14 Nov 2000, Adam McKenna wrote:
>
> > Not to mention that the whole point of freeware and open source software in
> > general is to give everyone the ability to audit the software, not just a
> > select few. It sounds like the author of this book is a M$-type weenie.
> >
>
> Who, Bruce? Bwahaha... no. Suggest you do some reading of Bruce's works
> before you continue down that train of thought. The Crypto-gram is a good
> start:
>
> http://www.counterpane.com/crypto-gram.html
OK, I stand corrected. But you have to realize that this is the same
argument put forward by many people pushing closed source solutions over open
source ones (that it has been analyzed by "experts"), and invariably many
security holes are found anyway. Cases in point, most major closed-source
firewall software, MS's shoddy PPTP implementation, etc.
--Adam
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