Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2000 01:19:22 -0300 (ADT) From: The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org> To: Christian Jacken <christian@jacken.net> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How safe is FreeBSD? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0008130118030.609-100000@thelab.hub.org> In-Reply-To: <NDBBJMNNEPKCHPDOJAEBAEJJEEAA.christian@jacken.net>
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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
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