From owner-freebsd-chat Wed May 22 10:31:20 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from swan.prod.itd.earthlink.net (swan.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.123]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C137F37B406 for ; Wed, 22 May 2002 10:31:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pool0319.cvx21-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([209.179.193.64] helo=mindspring.com) by swan.prod.itd.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #2) id 17AZx9-0001AZ-00; Wed, 22 May 2002 10:31:11 -0700 Message-ID: <3CEBD5C1.D458ABA7@mindspring.com> Date: Wed, 22 May 2002 10:30:41 -0700 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Giorgos Keramidas Cc: Brad Knowles , FreeBSD Chat Mailing List Subject: Re: /.: Microsoft Cites National Security to Justify Closed Source References: <20020522025534.GB386@hades.hell.gr> <3CEB3A3B.CF62340C@mindspring.com> <20020522082154.GA4265@hades.hell.gr> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > On 2002-05-21 23:27, Terry Lambert wrote: > > Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > > > So why not fix the code, instead of using it as an excuse for > > > keeping things secret, especially when a court asks about it? ;) > > > > > > Sounds like a very silly excuse to me. > > > > When you fix design flaws, APIs change. > > It would require recompiling everything. > > Yes, I know. How about "not my problem, but Microsoft's" ? > If they want to claim that their products are secure, then they should > make the effort that it takes to compile them ;) That only works if all the products that are insecure as a result of the bogus APIs are Microsoft products. They aren't. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message