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<h2>May, 2000</h2> |
<h2>May, 2000</h2> |
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<a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000510.html">Why |
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We're Doomed to Failure</a>, Security Portal, May 10, 2000 |
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Kurt Seifried talks about what people can do to promote security and |
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protect themselves against the now-commonplace attacks. His first |
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suggestion is for software vendors to audit code like OpenBSD did, but he |
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feels that the effort and demand for knowledgeable programmers is too |
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great for this approach to succeed. Instead, he suggests add-ons such as |
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various Linux patches, development tools and replacement libraries. We |
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think he gave up too easily: by accepting mudflaps in the place of |
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airbags, he is taking the heat off software vendors to clean up the |
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defects in their products. |
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<a href="http://www.computerworld.com/home/print.nsf/all/000502db52">Open |
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Source Smugglers</a>, ComputerWorld, May 5, 2000 |
Source Smugglers</a>, ComputerWorld, May 5, 2000 |
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written for credit union IS managers. Unfortunately, it's on the |
written for credit union IS managers. Unfortunately, it's on the |
subscription-only portion of <a href="http://www.cuestechport.com/">CUES |
subscription-only portion of <a href="http://www.cuestechport.com/">CUES |
Tech Port</a>, a web site for member credit unions. |
Tech Port</a>, a web site for member credit unions. |
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href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-03-2000/f_swol-03-silicon.html">The |
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Rich Morin puts the 80's UNIX history of fragmentation in perspective by |
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examining the creative tensions between the five operating systems derived |
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from 4.4BSD-Lite. Rather than repeating the platitude of how the BSD-derived |
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operating systems should unite, Morin's Silicon Carny column shows that the |
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projects and companies cooperate even though they have diverging goals. And |
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now that Sun has cautiously moved to open source some of its source, how |
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will the open source world react, he asks. |
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