Subj : Re: distro
To   : Nightfox
From : MRO
Date : Thu Dec 21 2017 22:24:24

  Re: Re: distro
  By: Nightfox to MRO on Thu Dec 21 2017 06:47 pm

 >  MR> you should be more suspicious of the everyday linux contributers. those
 >  MR> are the guys putting backdoors into shit that is putting us all at
 >  MR> risk.

 > Are you wearing a tin foil hat, by chance?

looks like SOMEONE DOESNT PAY ATTENTION TO THE NEWS.

 > One time I had a job interview and the interviewer asked what I thought
 > about Linux.  He told me he had more trust in Windows, because there's a
 > small dedicated team of people who are paid to develop Windows, and he
 > trusted that they'd make a good product.  I guess there's some sense to
 > that, but he also said that since Linux is free and open-source, he thought
 > anyone could go and put malware in Linux.  I hightly doubt that's the case..
 > My understanding is that there's a review process, and bad stuff would be
 > caught fairly soon.  I think the fact that Linux is open-source is one of
 > its strengths - There are many developers contributing to it, probably far
 > more than the number of people at any one company.  Security holes seem to
 > be fixed fairly quickly (I remember the 'Heartbleed' bug that was reported a
 > couple years ago, and it was fixed fairly quick).


So, heartbleed was fixed fairly quickly, eh?   it can only be fixed if someone
finds it. this one careless guy created a huge security issue that went on for
more than 2 years.

open source is NOT a strength. it's a weakness.  you are only as strong as your
weakest link and open source software can have random unqualified
'contributers', messing with code.  that's a fact.
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