Re: M$ attack on Common Sense

From: Max Burke (mlvburke_at_%$%#@.nz)
Date: 09/14/03 

Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2003 23:04:19 +1200

> conover@email.rahul.net scribbled:

>> Max Burke writes:

> conover@email.rahul.net scribbled:
> Sure, Jean-David. There are a lot of effective solutions to the
> buffer overrun problem. Some, as you point out, are quite straight
> forward-even elegant in their simplicity.

>>> My point was, though, that a quarter of a century old commercial
>>> software company shouldn't be having these kinds of problems.

>> Neither should Linux/OSS given that so many users [supposedly]
>> eyeball the code to prevent such things happening.....
>> Any Linux/OSS user want to explain why they still do happen in
>> Linux/OSS?
>> FYI
>> http://www.partyvibe.com/flavour/linux/security.htm
>> http://www.linuxsecurity.com/advisories/index.html
>> http://www.opennet.ru/base/linux/
>> http://www.securityfocus.com/news/19
>> http://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/

> But its unclear whether Linux has more bugs, or the OSS peer review of
> code finds more-which are disclosed publicly. However, another
> important URL:

> http://www.cert.org/summaries/CS-2003-03.html
> where the CERT incident response team issued 15 advisories for
> Microsoft products, 3 for Cisco, and 0 for all brands of Unix and
> Linux, in the last 90 days.

> But you are right. Both Linux and Microsoft have far too many security
> bugs, in comparison to the other OSs like Solaris or the BSDs, or even
> OS-X.
> August was not a good month for Linux, either:
>
http://www.globetechnology.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20030911.gtlinuxsep11/BNStory/Technology/
> from a cracked systems POV. (Look at BSD's numbers in that page.)

I dont play the numbers game......
Just because one OS has bug reports at any particular time does not
alter the fact that other OS'es have bugs as well.....

I could suggest that MS has so many 'reported' bugs because so many are
looking for them, just to have their 15 minutes of fame in the IT world.
ROTFLOL 

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