Comments on: “We are so Secure,” they cry, hacked full of holes http://elliottback.com/wp/we-are-so-secure-they-cry-hacked-full-of-holes/ Internet & Technology Sun, 22 Nov 2009 02:40:56 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: roger malcovich http://elliottback.com/wp/we-are-so-secure-they-cry-hacked-full-of-holes/#comment-14074 roger malcovich Sat, 17 Dec 2005 05:19:41 +0000 /?p=835#comment-14074 This is a line from the link you provided: "Linux users who patched their systems for a serious security vulnerability in KDE last month will have to patch once again, due to errors in the original patch, according to the KDE project." Was there not patches for system pack 2? I rest my case. This is a line from the link you provided:

“Linux users who patched their systems for a serious security vulnerability in KDE last month will have to patch once again, due to errors in the original patch, according to the KDE project.”

Was there not patches for system pack 2? I rest my case.

]]> By: Aphyr http://elliottback.com/wp/we-are-so-secure-they-cry-hacked-full-of-holes/#comment-2230 Aphyr Wed, 20 Jul 2005 18:33:19 +0000 /?p=835#comment-2230 Can we slam you for being a Microsoft zealot? Or would that be in bad taste? ;-) *ducks* Can we slam you for being a Microsoft zealot? Or would that be in bad taste? ;-)

*ducks*

]]> By: Anonymous http://elliottback.com/wp/we-are-so-secure-they-cry-hacked-full-of-holes/#comment-2205 Anonymous Wed, 20 Jul 2005 06:59:01 +0000 /?p=835#comment-2205 KDE: I'm a desktop environment, damn it! KDE: I’m a desktop environment, damn it!

]]> By: Elliott Back http://elliottback.com/wp/we-are-so-secure-they-cry-hacked-full-of-holes/#comment-2197 Elliott Back Wed, 20 Jul 2005 01:03:27 +0000 /?p=835#comment-2197 Since Clau directly addresses me and tells me to grow up, and Jon wonders how I explain using Wordpress, I tell them both: this post, if you actually read it, is anti-zealotry post, not an anti-open-source post. In this case, the zeolots I'm slamming are open-source zeolots, but if they were microsofties, they would get the same treatment. The argument that software availability leads to better throwaway security is ridiculous. That's all. There's good open source and closed source software, but neither model is more secure because of abundance. Since Clau directly addresses me and tells me to grow up, and Jon wonders how I explain using Wordpress, I tell them both: this post, if you actually read it, is anti-zealotry post, not an anti-open-source post. In this case, the zeolots I’m slamming are open-source zeolots, but if they were microsofties, they would get the same treatment. The argument that software availability leads to better throwaway security is ridiculous.

That’s all. There’s good open source and closed source software, but neither model is more secure because of abundance.

]]> By: Jon http://elliottback.com/wp/we-are-so-secure-they-cry-hacked-full-of-holes/#comment-2192 Jon Tue, 19 Jul 2005 23:27:34 +0000 /?p=835#comment-2192 Heh, you are bashing OpenSource and using WordPress for you website? How do you explain that? Heh, you are bashing OpenSource and using WordPress for you website? How do you explain that?

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