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"... which is more secure - Windows or Linux? !--- 2168,2177 ---- Starts with the question:
A snide answer is OpenBSD, which has an exemplary record with respect to security. But let's stick to the two most broadly used platforms in IT today. !
Microsoft's hired analysts claim that Windows is more secure than Linux. Should we believe them?"
"... which is more secure - Windows or Linux? !*************** *** 2584,2590 **** Fosdem Interview: Henning Brauer, Fosdem 2004, January 6, 2004. !
A snide answer is OpenBSD, which has an exemplary record with respect to security. But let's stick to the two most broadly used platforms in IT today. !
Microsoft's hired analysts claim that Windows is more secure than Linux. Should we believe them?"
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April 24, 2003.
($ registration required; free after May 1, 2003).
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More detailed discussion of why the funding was cut, by whom
and when. Concludes that the funding cut "may not be as dramatic
as it sounds", since OpenBSD has other sources of funding.
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sympathetic to the American military's current role in world
affairs." Notes the discrepancy between DARPA's public position
and what the people working on the UPenn project have been told.
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Describes Theo de Raadt as "A respected Canadian computer programmer ...
the 35-year-old founder of an international collaborative software project
known as OpenBSD", and quotes him as saying that the hackathon will go on:
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sympathetic to the American military's current role in world
affairs." Notes the discrepancy between DARPA's public position
and what the people working on the UPenn project have been told.
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Describes Theo de Raadt as "A respected Canadian computer programmer ...
the 35-year-old founder of an international collaborative software project
known as OpenBSD", and quotes him as saying that the hackathon will go on:
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The editors speak strongly in favor of the team's efforts
in producing reliable, bug-free software;
quoting two of them:
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(Ranum): It's GREAT to see that at least a few people are smart enough
to try to attack problems like this systemically, rather than keeping
stuck in the fruitless "penetrate and patch" while loop. This is how
to make progress in security: fundamental protections.
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(Shpantzer): Initiatives like this should be taught as case studies
in computer science courses at the undergraduate level.
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The editors speak strongly in favor of the team's efforts
in producing reliable, bug-free software;
quoting two of them:
!
(Ranum): It's GREAT to see that at least a few people are smart enough
to try to attack problems like this systemically, rather than keeping
stuck in the fruitless "penetrate and patch" while loop. This is how
to make progress in security: fundamental protections.
!
(Shpantzer): Initiatives like this should be taught as case studies
in computer science courses at the undergraduate level.