Re: Free Software as a "Security Hole"

2005-01-12 Thread Steven Lembark
-- Skylos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> It makes me wonder how they guarantee that the software they paid for doesn't have back doors in it. It does: google "microsoft windows easter eggs". Actually, you have better odds of knowing whether there are back doors on open source given that there ARE people who

Re: Free Software as a "Security Hole"

2005-01-12 Thread John Saylor
hi ( 05.01.12 09:34 -0800 ) Goehring, Chuck, RCI - San Diego: > I was looking for something authoratative like FSF, ASF or Richard > Stallman documents etc. you may have heard of 'google' ... -- \js oblique strategy: remove specifics and convert to ambiguities

Re: Free Software as a "Security Hole"

2005-01-12 Thread Skylos
It makes me wonder how they guarantee that the software they paid for doesn't have back doors in it. Skylos On Wed, 12 Jan 2005 09:34:12 -0800, Goehring, Chuck, RCI - San Diego <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I was looking for something authoratative like FSF, ASF or Richard Stallman > documents

RE: Free Software as a "Security Hole"

2005-01-12 Thread Goehring, Chuck, RCI - San Diego
I was looking for something authoratative like FSF, ASF or Richard Stallman documents etc. Thanks in advance. -Original Message- From: Goehring, Chuck, RCI - San Diego Sent: Wed 1/12/2005 9:21 AM To: modperl@perl.apache.org Cc: Subject: OT: Free Software as a "Security Hole"