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[News] Jermey Allison on Why Free Software is More Secure, Less Buggy

  • Subject: [News] Jermey Allison on Why Free Software is More Secure, Less Buggy
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2007 20:29:16 +0000
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Netscape / schestowitz.com
  • User-agent: KNode/0.10.4
Insecurity blues: What I learned from my buggy code

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| Is it easier to find and fix security bugs in Open Source/Free Software code 
| rather than proprietary code? My personal feeling on that is "yes". Being 
| able to examine the intent of the author by looking at the code and comments 
| makes it much easier to see where the intent and the code don't match. That's 
| where the security bugs live. Is Open Source/Free Software code safer than 
| proprietary code? I'd say "yes" to that also.     
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http://news.zdnet.com/2424-9595_22-177478.html?tag=nl.e539


Recent:

Microsoft FUDwatch: Windows vs. Linux security

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| Microsoft is adept at twisting the truth about how open source works. Every 
| person in that company knows or should know by now that significant 
| commercial interests are involved in open-source development, and especially 
| Linux. So when Mr. Edmonds refers to "volunteer developers," he's surely 
| creating a false strawman (just as Bill Hilf recently did).    
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http://blogs.cnet.com/8301-13505_1-9822808-16.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=TheOpenRoad


Related:

Skeletons in Microsoft’s Patch Day closet

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| This is the first time I’ve seen Microsoft prominently admit to silently 
| fixing vulnerabilities in its bulletins — a controversial practice that 
| effectively reduces the number of publicly documented bug fixes (for those 
| keeping count) and affects patch management/deployment decisions.   
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=316


Beware of undisclosed Microsoft patches

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| Forget for a moment whether Microsoft is throwing off patch counts 
| that Microsoft brass use to compare its security record with those 
| of its competitors. What do you think of Redmond’s silent patching 
| practice?
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=527


Microsoft is Counting Bugs Again

,----[ Quote ]
| Sorry, but Microsoft's self-evaluating security counting isn't really a 
| good accounting.
| 
| [...]
| 
| The point: Don't count on security flaw counting. The real flaw is 
| the counting.
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http://www.microsoft-watch.com/content/security/microsoft_is_counting_bugs_again.html?kc=MWRSS02129TX1K0000535


How secure are Linux, Window and Mac OS?

http://www.masuran.org/node/29


2006 Operating System Vulnerability Summary

http://www.omninerd.com/2007/03/26/articles/74


Linux vs. Windows: Which is Most Secure?

http://www.esecurityplanet.com/views/article.php/3665801


Linux Security: A Big Edge Over Windows

http://www.linuxinsider.com/rsstory/54742.html


The problems with Vista laid bare - What might have been

http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=38419


Why Windows is less secure than Linux

http://blogs.zdnet.com/threatchaos/?p=311


Linux more secure than Windows, national survey shows

http://www.xomba.com/linux_more_secure_than_windows_national_survey_shows


Microsoft Windows: Insecure by Design

http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A34978-2003Aug23?language=printer


If Only We Knew Then What We Know Now About Windows XP

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/23/AR2006092300510.html?nav=rss_technology


Why Windows is a security nightmare.

http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/05/21/1085120110704.html


The Structural Failures of Windows

http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=15305


More than half of Microsoft Vista needs re-writing 

http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=30516


Windows Fiji: Now second half of 2008?

http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=520


Microsoft admits Vista screwed - report 

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| Vista SP1 is code named "Fiji", presumably after a pretty looking
| island which is paralysed by coups.
| 
| In a statement regarding the service pack Microsoft admits that
| Vista has "high impact" problems.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=37125


Microsoft cuts Windows virtualization features

http://news.zdnet.com/2100-3513_22-6182852.html


,----[ Quote ]
| "Right now, Microsoft has nowhere to run, and nowhere to hide. After all 
| the hype surrounding Vista, the Emperor has finally been revealed in all 
| his naked glory. Some folks have been predicting the demise of Microsoft. I
| wouldn't go that far, but I am wondering how we?re ever going to take
| Microsoft seriously again?"
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http://www.regdeveloper.co.uk/2007/04/29/vista_end_dream/


A history of Microsoft Windows - the inside story exposed 

,----[ Quote ]
| 2004: (...)
| THE MANAGEMENT: "What do you mean it still doesn't work? Try
| harder!"
| 
| 2005: (...)
| "MAKE IT WORK! FOR GOD'S SAKE, MAKE IT WORK! Well, throw it away
| and use the server version then, that seems all right. Look, they
| won't know the difference, drop the database stuff, nobody remembers
| what we said in 1995 now! That was ten years ago! "Apple has what?
| 3D acceleration? So, we have DirectX. What, in the desktop? Really?
| What, even Stallman's beardie-weirdies have it? Oh hell. Right, you
| lot, make it look like this!"
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http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=37962


MS Insider: The Office Crew Isn't Smart Enough to Supplant Real Windows
Developers

http://www.emailbattles.com/2006/09/11/ms-insider-the-office-crew-isnt-smart-enough-to-supplant-real-windows-developers/
http://tinyurl.com/35eqrt

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