RE: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] Thwarted Linux Kernel Hack

["Ross, Matthew" <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

> 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.

Actually, I suspect it should be phrased "Linux code is checked unlike Microsoft code". It seems to me that MS checks its functionality, not its code, and they can't even do that right :-P

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