From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 29 16:10:00 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 41C5316A4CE for ; Tue, 29 Mar 2005 16:10:00 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp11.wanadoo.fr (smtp11.wanadoo.fr [193.252.22.31]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E45D743D58 for ; Tue, 29 Mar 2005 16:09:59 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from atkielski.anthony@wanadoo.fr) Received: from me-wanadoo.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mwinf1102.wanadoo.fr (SMTP Server) with ESMTP id 996A01C00054 for ; Tue, 29 Mar 2005 18:09:58 +0200 (CEST) Received: from pix.atkielski.com (ASt-Lambert-111-2-1-3.w81-50.abo.wanadoo.fr [81.50.80.3]) by mwinf1102.wanadoo.fr (SMTP Server) with ESMTP id 758491C00053 for ; Tue, 29 Mar 2005 18:09:58 +0200 (CEST) X-ME-UUID: 20050329160958481.758491C00053@mwinf1102.wanadoo.fr Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2005 18:09:58 +0200 From: Anthony Atkielski X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <1965951106.20050329180958@wanadoo.fr> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: References: <154613622.20050327112206@wanadoo.fr> <1666987759.20050328012237@wanadoo.fr> <4247420E.1030307@makeworld.com> <405056772.20050328020101@wanadoo.fr> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Anthony's drive issues.Re: ssh password delay X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2005 16:10:00 -0000 Bart Silverstrim writes: > What did they say? MS developers are much like most other developers: it's never their fault. > Isn't that how many FOSS projects get started...do some task more > efficiently and "better"? FOSS? > Nope, but it sure makes it a lot simpler! Actually it helps hamper > finding bugs that allow it to happen. It depends on how the code is written, but I'll agree that most bloated code is written in great haste, with no attention at all given to the many holes that are opened by all those millions of extra lines of deadwood. > As has been shown time and time again in Microsoft-sponsored studies > comparing Windows to Linux. After removing the power supply and > encasing my system in concrete, it is FAR more secure than I've ever > dreamt possible, and that was with it running DOS! :-) There's nothing unique about Windows. But more people attack Windows, so more holes are found and exploited. Linux is rapidly catching up. And Mac OS X isn't immune, although I suspect that almost all the holes being found in OS X are in Apple's code, not the base OS. -- Anthony