On Thu, Aug 30, 2001 at 12:16:38PM +0300, Haim Gelfenbeyn wrote: > This is true for the select number of very widely-used packages. > However, rarely-used software is not audied actively, and security bugs > are not fixed prompty. Take for example, Interbase. Wide-open backdoor > was discovered only months after this quite popular database went > open-source. After existing in the closed-source version for many years. Actually I consider Interbase a very good example. > My message was that rejecting closed-source software just because it's > closed source is not a solution for most people. Common user have to > trust someone... I agree with most of your points but I disagree here. It is better to hope that at least one person in the world will choose to publish crucial security information than to trust a single company (and by definition not an impartial company, too) to do the same. ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
