Re: White paper: "Many Eyes" - No Assurance Against Many Spies

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Kenneth R. van Wyk wrote:

> FYI, there's a white paper out by Dan O'Dowd of Green Hills Software (see 
> http://www.ghs.com/linux/manyeyes.html) that "It is trivial to infiltrate the 
> loose association of Linux organizations which have developers all over the 
> world, especially when these organizations don't even try to prevent 
> infiltration, they accept code from anyone."

And he's selling us the solution, how convenient. :\  Hmm.

Leaving aside the couple of obvious problems with this essay's
arguments, I'll note that some of the author's points are valid.  It
puzzles me that many otherwise security-conscious people have no qualms
downloading and installing whatever they fancy with little thought to
the source or the author's motives.  It is indeed a pretty loose network
which supports much of what we know as GNU/Linux.  That is less true of
FreeBSD and even less of OpenBSD.

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David Talkington
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