Open source aides terrorists

[Lee]

They also forgot to mention that about a year ago M$ was hacked and
their source codes downloaded. Or, that six weeks after XP was released
there was a site on the net where a program could be downloaded that
disabled the function in XP that required users to make yearly returns
to the M$ well to beg Billy the Squid to be allowed to use XP for
another year. Proprietary or open source if there's an open port a
hacker will find his/her way in. At least with open source, there are
multiple distros and releases. Having the source code to Mandrake 8.2
might not be much help breaking into a system based on Caldera 2.4.








"m.w.chang" wrote:
> 
> well well.. how about open-sourced stones and knives. Silly suggestion
> in my opinison, as a desperate attempt to keep his job and make some noise.
> 
> If US copies of any closed/opened programs are clean and secured, how on
> earth would anyone be hack into her corporate world? His suggestion
> mreely told the world that US computer systems had lots of bugs awaiting
> for us to explore....
> 
> > This is a good one.
> > http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104-929669.html
> 
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