Hello, Deep hacking of OpenSource stuffs is much more easier than deep hacking of closed source stuffs.
hoyuka Karel Kulhavy said: > On Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 02:08:51PM +0100, Kovács Levente wrote: >> On Sun, 6 Nov 2005 00:57:31 +0100 (CET) >> "hoyuka hoya" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> > Hello, >> > >> > I agree with your explanation. But the human beeings rather use >> > directly Windows for there every day work/pleasure than computer >> > systems made for doing critical things. >> >> You miss the point. We, and people who thinks that Unix is something >> "good" do not use Unix, becouse everyone does it too. People who use >> windoze use windows becouse "they've been told" to use it!!!! >> >> I think this is the point. We are using Unix, becouse of its >> performance. Other's using WIndows, becouse they made lasy by ads or >> whatever... Of course it's simplified version of the storry. >> >> > But imagine that the most common desktop OS would be Unix based and >> > user friendly /very confortable to use and maintaine (since it's an >> > important requirement for a desktop OS). There were a lot of user who >> > would use this system always as root. There were mailing clients >> > which allowed to run scripts/binaries comming with e-mails. Same >> > terrible things would happen with these Unix machines like Windows >> > machines now. >> >> Makes no snece. All I ever wnated from people who use windoze, to >> somehow respect others. E.g. on my university to put the f*cking >> acrobat reader to the computer at our end semester presentation, since >> I use LaTeX. That's all! >> > People can hear from many sources that the Unicies are safer than MS >> > stuffs. But I don't know. Even if Linux is Open Source I haven't >> > reviewed every source line in the kernel and in the suid >> > applications. So I don't know what is behind the surface. And I > > But you have reviewed every source line of MS Windows. > >> > haven't compiled every application myself, I have downloaded it from >> > somewhere. What if the Linux "originally" safe, but I downloaded a >> > hacked package from somewhere and the hacker may know every steps >> > what I do with the machine? >> >> Trust. Linux is far more better in that way than windoze >> >> > I think it's even possible to simulate a DNS which would map >> > www.kernel.org to an other machine where the site would looks like >> > exactly www.kernel.org, but would contain hacked kernel sources. I >> > think ISPs can do it easily. Maybe it's not the aim of the ISP, but >> > can be the aim of an individual who is working there. > > But this is not possible with www.microsoft.com. > > CL< > ------------------------------------- C2 MAIL: A nagy levelez-Õ. http://mail.c2.hu
