-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Kenneth R. van Wyk wrote:
>FYI, there's a white paper out by Dan O'Dowd of Green Hills Software (see >http://www.ghs.com/linux/manyeyes.html) that "It is trivial to infiltrate the >loose association of Linux organizations which have developers all over the >world, especially when these organizations don't even try to prevent >infiltration, they accept code from anyone." And he's selling us the solution, how convenient. :\ Hmm. Leaving aside the couple of obvious problems with this essay's arguments, I'll note that some of the author's points are valid. It puzzles me that many otherwise security-conscious people have no qualms downloading and installing whatever they fancy with little thought to the source or the author's motives. It is indeed a pretty loose network which supports much of what we know as GNU/Linux. That is less true of FreeBSD and even less of OpenBSD. - -d - -- David Talkington [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAkUoT5FKhdwBLj4sRAluEAJ4oaUqtTrKPsOpaTiRJ9vycDhlwMACgo6D3 M/i6mUw7n6wm2c64aBIaPwk= =NAeE -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
