From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Aug 12 21:22: 1 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from thelab.hub.org (nat202.213.mpoweredpc.net [142.177.202.213]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E308237BE13 for ; Sat, 12 Aug 2000 21:21:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) Received: from localhost (scrappy@localhost) by thelab.hub.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id BAA05569; Sun, 13 Aug 2000 01:19:22 -0300 (ADT) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) X-Authentication-Warning: thelab.hub.org: scrappy owned process doing -bs Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2000 01:19:22 -0300 (ADT) From: The Hermit Hacker To: Christian Jacken Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How safe is FreeBSD? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 13 Aug 2000, Christian Jacken wrote: > Hello guys, > > sometimes Microsoft supporters get me in serious trouble when it comes > to the questions "how should we trust our main operations to an > operating system made a buch of open source programmers" and "you say > that Microsoft or NSI possibly have a backdoor to Windows2000, but how > can we be sure that there is no backdoor in Red Hat or FreeBSD"? > > Can you help me? Give them the source code to the operating system? Then they can audit the source code itself for any backdoors. Ask them if they can provide you similar source code so that you can do your own audit? :) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message