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On Mon, 10 Nov 2003, Jerry Gamblin wrote:
> If this had gotten in and was wide spread this would have sit back the
> Linux movement ages.
>
> http://www.securityfocus.com/news/7388
>
> This is a fear that a ton of people have anyway and it looked like it
> just about happened.
My argument is this: This sort of thing is *exactly* why linux is safer
and more secure than most other OSs. Linux is open source and it is read
carefully and closely by many people. This clever attempt to open a hole
in the code was detected. What if a clever employee at Microsoft managed
to sneak some code like this into Win2000, say? Would we know? Not until
the hole was exploited and a massive attack had affected just about every
PC in the country. I'm sure that Linux code is checked much more
carefully than is Microsoft code.
Mike
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