Re: Your Opinion

From: The Fungi <fungi@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2007 21:22:45 +0000

On Fri, Mar 16, 2007 at 06:48:30PM -0000, Mark Litchfield wrote:

I have heard the comment "It's a huge conflict of interest" for one company
to provide both an operating platform and a security platform" made by John
Thompson (CEO Symantec) many times from many different people.

[...]

My take on this statement: it's a polite way of pointing out the
scam-artist-like behavior for someone selling known-insecure
software and then charging you extra to secure it. "Oh, you wanted
the version *without* built-in vulnerabilities?"
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