Re: Myths

From: Keith Keller (kkeller-usenet_at_wombat.san-francisco.ca.us)
Date: 04/22/05 

Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2005 21:06:23 -0700

On 2005-04-22, Unruh <unruh-spam@physics.ubc.ca> wrote:

> Unfortunately as well, the initial statements in the story are wrong. He did NOT ask about the most
> common mispreceptions of Linux sercurity. He gave the title "Five Linux
> Security Myths" and asked "any comments?"
> Ie, He is rewriting history to make himself look innocent. (This combined
> with the sidebar "Voting booth" makes the whole thing pretty distasteful.)

I finally re-read the article and the original thread, and it
seems like there were really few flames at all in the original
thread. It also seems that he ignored the good suggestions for
common linux myths and used his own, without bothering to check
whether people actually believed the myths or not.

It looks like the voting booth is the same on all articles on the
web site; it's even on the front page. So I'm not sure it's fair
to blame the author of the article for such a stupid poll question.

> Who believes "Open source automatically, absolutely equals security--or
> insecurity"?

Believe it or not, I do know people who believe both sides of this
myth (as well as myth #2, linux is by default more secure than
windows).

--keith 

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