On Sun, Nov 15, 1998 at 05:43:19PM -0500, Bob Munck wrote:
> I'm curious: how is the Linux development effort handling the
> danger that a contributor will build an undetectable security
> hole into his code?
If the hole is by definition undetectable, then there exists no
means of detecting it. It's therefore pointless to ask how it
will be handled by the Linux development community (or by the NT team,
or by the MacOS folks) because none of them will be aware of it.
But if we modify the question to read "hard to detect", then I suggest
to you that such a deliberately inserted hole has a much greater chance
of being detected by a larger developer community than a smaller one.
So. How many people have access to the source code -- *ALL* of the source
code -- for NT? How many people have access to all of it for Linux?
> At least with NT, there's someone whom the victims can sue.
That's one of the standard Microsoft FUD tactics used to persuade PHBs
from using freeware. Personally, I'd rather have software that *works*;
then I don't have to worry about who to sue.
---Rsk
Rich Kulawiec
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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