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Re: WANTED: ISPs with DDoS defense solutions


From: "Petri Helenius" <pete () he iki fi>
Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2003 21:01:26 +0300


If FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, RedHat, Debian, SuSE were packaged and
and sold in stores, how would this be any different? Oh wait, They
are packaged and sold in stores!

Just by comparing the OpenBSD security track record to the one of any Windows
release would dismiss your point.

People find remote exploitable flaws in the aforementioned OSes during
during their pre-release, release, after-release, alpha, beta, gamma,
delta force, and nuclear reactor stages.

It´s not black and white, while no OS is perfect, there are measurable differences
on how much they are exploited. Diversity would make trojan/virus writers job
harder. So diversity is good.

No one's perfect, not ISPs, not users, not software vendors, not you.
So please stop telling us about the lifestyle on planet Utopia.

So by telling people to shut up you expect to make the world more secure? Right :)

Pete


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