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Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2004 13:03:43 +0100

In alt.comp.linux, SjT uttered these immortal words:

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> Anyway, to answer your question :D
>
> OSS IS more insecure because it is far easier to find security holes

And to fix them.

> in the program, but more worryingly what's to stop someone from
> including code to look for any of your personal information or
> whatever task they want to carry out on your machine and putting it up
> on the linux groups or any bit of webspace they have.

That's not an OSS issue, that's a social engineering issue. What's to stop
me writing software to do the same on a Windows box? I could put that
software in a group, on a P2P network or on a website and encourage people
to download and run it.
 
> If they were to do this and uploaded the file it would soon circulate
> around the linux scene, especially if they only uploaded the binary
> which most newbie linux users would unsuspectingly download.

If anyone downloads and installs unconfirmed software from any old website
then that's their fault. Software should only be downloaded, installed and
run from official sites or better still only from your installation CDs if
you're unsure. Your installation CDs will have been checked by your distro
maintainers.
 
> It's totally possible and if Linux were to become more dominant then
> no doubt it would happen.

Like it's already happening to Windows users? People run email attachments
or ActiveX controls that do nasty things all the time. People download
software (mostly CSS because there's no reason to "pirate" most OSS) from
P2P networks and binary NGs that's been hacked to install a virus when it's
run. You can't prevent stupidity.
 
> As you say it's easily rectified due to being OSS, but how do you undo
> all the download locations that are currently hosting the file?! and
> by that time it could be too late.

You make sure you only download verified software. The same thing applies to
OSS and CSS.

Not only do your arguments not hold water but they have nothing to do with
OSS at all yet you state that "OSS IS more insecure". You even capitalised
the word "is" like your forcefully stating a fact!
 
>>You have a Windows 2000 server that has been up, ie not rebooted, for a
>>few years? If that's true it must be very insecure because applying some
>>security patches would require a reboot.
>
> I've not come across one yet, we always wait for the repackaged
> versions that MS put out which do not require a reboot, it's not brain
> science.

What repackaged versions? From where?
 
> I don't mean people on these groups are giving me aggro, i mean that
> do you think the time has come when i could comfortably do what i
> wanted with linux without the OS causing me aggro.

Are you asking a question? If so, only you have the answer to it.
 
>>There's no need to ever compile a kernel if you don't want to but you seem
>>to think that everyone must do so and post that viewpoint as if it was a
>>fact.
>
> No, what i am saying (And this may have changed i dont know) is that
> when i used linux to install anything in the past i had to compile the
> source files to the linux kernel so that it would run.

When in the past? In the last 5 years I've never come across that "issue".
 
>>You don't seem to respect other people's opinions either. Linux doesn't do
>>what you want. No one's going to give you aggro for that. Your attitude
>>seems to be "Linux doesn't work for me therefore it won't work for anyone
>>else so it's crap". At least that's the impression I get from your posts.
>
> Nah my beleif is that linux is great to a point, and that point is as
> a single user machine purely dedicated for multimedia applications
> (i.e. read the subject please?).

Others have already mentioned MPlayer. I can't find anything it won't play.
 
> I hope in the future it will advance, but as i've said before there
> are a lot of freeriders using linux so i cant see how big companies
> are going to make a profit in the linux market without using their
> MSWin sales to support it as a labour of love.

You haven't looked into it enough then.

-- 
Andy.

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