Re: Tell me about security/privacy issues with .NET/mono

From: Star Fleet Admiral Q (Star_Fleet_Admiral_Q(NO-SPAM)_at_(FORGET-SPAM)hotmail.com)
Date: 06/28/04 

Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2004 00:13:13 GMT

FYI - "passport" has nothing to do with ".NET", except that some of
the "passport" servers/software are written in one of the ".NET"
languages. 

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"Al Dykes" <adykes@panix.com> wrote in message
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> I've avoided anything related to Microsoft's "passport" service, and
I
> assocoate the MS .NET fud with it, so I've never considered running
> any windows or unix applications that said they needed .NET.  I know
> of the mono project and haven't seen any objections to it, recently.
>
> I just looked at Activestate Python/windows and see it uses .NET.
> Are there any downsides to runing .NET/mono applications ?
>
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> Al Dykes
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