"...There's a lot of criticism that the open-source movement has been good
at reproducing an existing environment--cloning Unix, cloning CDE (Common
Desktop Environment), reverse-engineering Microsoft's SMB (Server Message
Block) protocols. What are the new areas where the open-source community
will lead the rest of the industry?
We're definitely on the cutting edge with respect to security. The fact is,
companies aren't spending as much on security as they know they should. My
supposition is that the reason people are spending so little on security is
because the existing proprietary platforms offer such poor security
alternatives, meaning they're either not very secure or not easy to
implement, or not easy to maintain, or not flexible or not compatible. The
community that has had experience in making technology ubiquitous through
open models is the community that's going to find and deliver security
solutions that warrant responsible spending by IT organizations.
So (Sun Microsystems') Solaris is less secure than Linux?
People have reported on numerous occasions the cost differential between a
proprietary system and a Linux-based system. People don't want to spend
money on things that are considered too expensive. Even if Sun does have
adequate security in one dimension, the overall commercial offering is just
not very attractive compared to what the IT departments are demanding.
How will the open-source community push security forward?
There's a lot of work going on surrounding a development called
Security-enhanced Linux. This has been adopted by the community. People are
using Debian (a free operating system that uses the Linux kernel) as a
base, then feeding that through and into and back from the community..."
FROM
http://news.com.com/1200-1120-975441.html?tag=fd_ledelink
Here's another for the killfile...23-year Marine veteran--and current Cisco
Systems executive
http://news.com.com/1200-1120-975423.html?tag=fd_ledelink
One bullet for being a marine and another for Cisco,both to be charged to
nearest kin.
It will be a mercy killing because..."Trusting technology to make
cyberspace fully secure is a fantasy." B.Schneier and thats no bs.
